20th century composers
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Wolf | Suffered mental breakdown; incapacitated remainder of life. |
| Mahler | Converted to Catholicism to become director; two daughters died;"symphony of a thousand" |
| Strauss | Rescued daughter in law from nazis; Rich music comer |
| Tchaikovsky | 1812 overture |
| Balakirev | russian 5 |
| Borodin | chemist, Prince igor, russian 5 |
| cui | music critic, russian 5 |
| Mussorsky | studied with balakirev, non functional harmony harmonies, russian 5, |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | Link between glinka and russian 5, proffessor at saint petersburg |
| Rachmaninoff | early study in st. pettersburg and moscow, mixes national and romantic traits |
| Skryabin | Concert pianist,born in Russia but composed in Switzerland, studied at Moscow conservatory. synesthesia, promethius chord |
| Debussy | prix de rome1884 , studied at paris conservatory, died of cancer during WWII, |
| Ravel | Studied at paris conservatory, concert for the left hand |
| Satie | anti impressionism, influenced milhaud, poulanc and Honegger |
| Puccini | seamless construction, swift action and lyrical pause, psycological drama and developement |
| Bartok | piano professor at royal accademy, collected folk songs with kodaly, ethnomusicologist koussevitzky, 3 quartets, 2 violin sonatas. piano sonata, 1st piano concerto, one act opera "Bluebeard's cas |
| Bartok | opera, "Bluebeard's Castle", allegro Babbaro for piano, dance suite for orchestra |
| Kodaly | Born in Hungary, studied languages at university of Budapest, and music at Liszt academy. Jeno Adam and reform music education, emphasized movable do. |
| Orff | Collected folk songs in Germany, music for children for school use, widely adopted pedagogical method for mvmt, singing, playing & instruments |
| Prokofiev | Born in Sontsovka (now Ukraine), moved to USA, wife arrested for espionage, but really just sending money to her mother in Spain, died on day of Stalin's death, went unnoticed |
| Shostakovitch | lived entire life under Soviet system, played by ear well--resulted in difficulty reading music, suffered from ill health, but didn't want to give up cigarettes or vodka, DSCH |
| Shostakovitch | DSCH (D Eb C B) on his tombstone, polio--unable to play piano, died of lung cancer |
| Vaughn Williams | great uncle Charles Darwin, nationalistic then served in WWI and became less nationalistic, attended and taught at Royal College of Music |
| Holst | born in England, studied violin and piano, neuritis in hands, conducted Hammersmith Socialist Choir, slipped and hit his head, never recovered, died from optional surgery |
| Holst | surgery, influenced by Hindu Mysticism |
| Britten | best known English composer of 20th century, RVM did want to accept him to Royal College of Music, organized english opera group, and founded the aldeburg festival devoted to produc |
| Britten | which was devoted to short chamber operas by English composers, died from heart complications, War Requiem, premiered in new Coventry cathedral, Peter Grimes |
| Rutter | Born in London, choirboy, studied music at Clare College & director of music, founded Cambridge Choir, founded Collegium Records, Chronic fatigue syndrome, still alive |
| Grainger | born in Australia, studied at Hoch Conservatory Clara Schumann was head of piano studied there, formed the Frankfurt group to rescue British & Scandinavian music, USmsumusicmusicfrom |
| Grainger | US Army band, was a Phi Mu Alpha. Invented the free music machine, of |
| Hindemith | attended Hoch Conservatory, taught at Yale, first violinist in Frankfrut Opera, drafted into German army, taught at Berline Hochschule fur Musik, taught at University of Zurich, |
| Hindemith | the craft of musical composition: a theory book that classified sonortites by criteria other than function within the tonal system. |
| Distler | born in Nuremberg, organist in Lubeck, professor of church music in Spandau and Berlin. Received conscription notice, committed suicide. Letter next day excusing. |
| Weill | born in Dessau Germany, two music careers, one in European composition, and one in musical theater, joined the Novembregruppe a group of leftist activists, left |
| Weill | Germany with the rise of Hitler, denounced Jewish faith and leftist activities, |
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