1. Pick one of the following composers and discuss anything you can remember about their life, music and/or influence.

Chopin Tchaikovsky

Berlioz Puccini

Brahms Mahler

2. Discuss any details you can remember about the life of any composer we have studied from the classical or romantic period.
3. What made Beethoven’s symphonies different and generally more significant pieces compared to those of Haydn and Mozart?
4. Discuss the difference in mood between Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”

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