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5 days ago · Beethoven composed music in the transitional period between the Classical and the Romantic eras, and his work has been divided into (roughly) three periods. The first period, between 1794 and 1800, is characterized by traditional 18th-century technique and sounds.
- Reputation and Influence
Ludwig van Beethoven - Composer, Innovator, Genius:...
- Approaching Deafness
The year 1804 was to see the completion of the Third...
- Early Influences
Ludwig van Beethoven - Classical Composer, German, Maestro:...
- Concerto
Origins of the concerto. The word concerto has given trouble...
- B Major: a Look at Beethoven
They are among the most famous works of classical music....
- Beethoven and Women
In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann in Berlin produced an appreciation...
- The Last Years
In the meantime, Beethoven had written the three final piano...
- Structural Innovations
Structural innovations of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven...
- Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (born November 16, 1895, Hanau, near...
- Reputation and Influence
3 days ago · Prominent composers of the early 20th century include Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Nikos Skalkottas, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Cécile Chaminade, Paul Hindemith, Aram Khachaturian, George Gershwin, Amy Beach, Béla Bartók, and Dmitri Shostakovich, along with the ...
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5 days ago · Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
4 days ago · The 20th century saw the unprecedented dissemination of popular music, that is, music with a wide appeal. The term has its roots in the music of the American Tin Pan Alley, a group of prominent musicians and publishers who began to emerge during the 1880s in New York City.
4 days ago · Bedřich Smetana (born March 2, 1824, Leitomischl, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Litomyšl, Czech Republic]—died May 12, 1884, Prague) was a Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems, founder of the Czech national school of music. He was the first truly important Bohemian nationalist composer.
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4 days ago · Milton Babbitt was an American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism—i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour), and register.
3 days ago · As the 20th century dawned, piano music styles continued to evolve, reflecting the changing cultural landscape and the advent of new musical genres. Composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel experimented with impressionistic harmonies and unconventional rhythms, creating a dreamlike and evocative sound world.
