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Do Now:
 What aspects of a nation's identity (culture, history,
language, territory, nationality, religion) could an
artist, writer, or composer incorporate into their
work? How?
Example: Frédéric Chopin
 Wrote numerous piano pieces inspired by
peasant dances
 Most famous were the 68 mazurkas and and 23
polonaises
 Composition of these mazurkas signaled new
ideas of nationalism, and influenced and
inspired other composers—mostly eastern
Europeans—to support their national music.
 Listening sample: Polonaise in A flat major,
Op. 53
Example: Richard Wagner
 Most famous work is referred to as “The Ring Cycle,” a
series of four epic operas (takes about 15 hours to
perform) that tells the story of a magic ring that grants
its bearer the power to rule the world.
 Drawn from stories of Norse and German mythology /
folktales
 Came up with concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total
work of art,” that fused visual, musical, and dramatic
arts.
 Listening Sample: “Ride of the Valykries,” opening of
act III of Die Walkure, the second opera in the Ring
cycle.
Anne Louis
Girodet Trioson,
“Heaven Receiving the
Ghosts of the French
heroes”
Jean Victor
Schnetz,
“Combat
devant l'hôtel
de ville ”
Jean Victor
Schnetz,
“Combat
devant l'hôtel
de ville ”
Hippolyte Lecomte, “Battle at the Rue de Rohan”
Listening Sample: 1812
Overture, Peter Tchaikovsky
John Constable,The Haywain, 1821, Oil on Canvas
Caspar David Friedrich,
The Chasseur in the
Forest
Painted in 1814 after the
expulsion of French
troops from Germany, the
painting depicts a French
soldier lost in the dense
German forest.
Caspar David Friedrich, Bohemian Landscape with Mount Milleschauer, 1808
Hans Gude, Brudeferden i Hardanger
Jasper Francis Cropsey: The Valley of Wyoming, 1865
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains