Which of the Following Composers Is Not Considered a Master of the Classical Period?

Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?

A. Johann Christian Bach

B. Ludwig van Beethoven

C. Wolfgang A. Mozart

D. Joseph Haydn

2. Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

A. as an independently wealthy composer

B. as a professional free-lance musician

C. serving a wealthy aristocratic family

D. as a church musician and organist

3. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. In the classical period, composers were influenced by folk and popular music.

B. While a late baroque musical composition may convey a single emotion, a classical composition will fluctuate in mood.

C. Composers in the classical period tended to use terraced dynamics in their compositions.

D. The basso continuo was gradually abandoned during the classical period.

4. Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by

A. flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music

B. writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy

C. writing dance music for public balls

D. all of the above

5. The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as

A. theater

B. literature

C. music

D. all of the above

6. Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

A. as an independently wealthy composer

B. as a professional free-lance musician

C. serving a wealthy aristocratic family

D. as a church musician and organist

7. Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered

A. a skilled servant

B. a free-lance musician

C. a visiting guest composer

D. an equal by his employer

8. In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart

A. avoided each other

B. became close friends

C. were jealous of each other

D. never met