COMPOSERS

• franz peter schubert (1797-1828)

  • politic song writer whose career was cut short by an early death from bacterial infection
  • favorite genre was "lieder" - german songs from the romantic period for piano and voice
  • powerful dramatic impact on the listeners
  • tapped the poetry of writers like Johann Goethe
  • considered one of the last classical composers and one of the first romantic ones
• giuseppe verdi

  • instrument: organ
  • known mainly for his operas
  • his characters are neither stock roles nor symbols
  • insisted on a good libretto
  • wrote operas with political overtones and for middle-class audience
  • "oberto" - first opera; performed in milan
  • almost all his works are serious love story with unhappy ending
  • expressive vocal melody is the soul of a verdi opera
  • completed 25 operas throughout his career
  • final opera ends with "all the world's a joke"