The 1755 Lisbon earthquake destroyed hundreds of Carlos Seixas’s (“SAY-shahss’s”) keyboard sonatas in this style, whose Neapolitan idiom was brought to St. Petersburg by Giovanni Paisiello. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this simplified 18th-century musical style often likened to contemporaneous rococo painting. Empfindsamkeit (“emp-FINT-zahm-kyte”) grew out of this style, whose exemplars included Giovanni Battista Sammartini and J. C. Bach.
ANSWER: galant style [or style galant; accept galanteries or Galantarien]
[10h] A galant composer from this country wrote music for a royal palace’s 1744 wedding. A rococo composer from this country wrote volumes of “epistles” and “songs” under a patron of Joseph Martin Kraus.
ANSWER: Sweden [or Sverige or Ruotsi; or Kingdom of Sweden or Konungariket Sverige; accept Swedish or svenska] (Johan Helmich Roman composed the “Drottningholm Music.” Carl Michael Bellman composed Fredman’s Epistles and Fredman’s Songs under Gustav III.)
[10e] Johann Gottlieb Naumann reformed one of these places in Sweden after he composed the “Dresden amen” for another of them. Georg Philipp Telemann and other “Masters” of these small institutions led orchestras and choirs.
ANSWER: chapels [accept court chapels or Hofkapellen; accept Kapellmeister, Hofkapellmeister, maestro di cappella, or Kapellmästare; prompt on churches, cathedrals, Kirchen, Domkirche, or Kathedralen]
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