Music 10-Composers
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- Antonin Dvorák
- 1841-1904, Czech, strongly ifluenced by Smetana-moved to U.S., famous works include Slavonic Danses, Symphony no. 9
- Luis Armstrong
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- Aaron Copland
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- Gustav Mahler
- 1860-1911, Brahms' Viennese successor, conductor, radical ideas, symphony, big orchestra, unusual sounds for a concert hall
- Duke Ellington
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- Giuseppe Verdi
- 1813-1901, went from bottom to top from small opera houses to La Scala, Italian operatic tradition, worked with famous librettists-Otello
- Franz Schubert
- 1797-1828, viennese closee circle of artistic friends, over 600 songs, chamber music, piano pieces, symphonies-Gretchen am Spinnrade
- Franz Liszt
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- Fryderyk Chopin
- 1810-1849, Rubato, solo piano pieces-mazurka, polonaise, impromtus, improvisatory in manner
- Piotr Tchaichovsky
- 1840-1893, tragic life, studied with Balakiev but embraced European symphonic music, especially Mozart, famous pieces: Nutcracker Suite, Overture, six symphonies, violin concerto in D Major, Romeo and Juliet
- John Cage
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- Robert Schumann
- 1810-1856, master of lieder, solo piano, chamber music, orchestral music-Carnaval
- Charles Ives
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- Vincenzo Bellini
- 1801-1835, master of bel canto opera, preferred serious/tragic plots, lyric intensity, vocal display (ornamentation), coloratura-Norma, Casta Diva
- Anton Webern
- 1883-1945, texture, expressive textures, sparse textures, use of silence, brevity-strict serialism
- Lili Boulanger
- 1893-1918, child prodigy, Paris conservatory, Rome Prize-Psalm 24
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- Claude Debussy
- Ballets Russes, Sergi Diaghilev, commissioned many composers, including French
- William Billings
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- W. C. Handy
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- Bedrich Smetana
- 1824-1884, Czech-Bohemia, built national theater in Prague, criticized for sounding too much like Liszt, The Moldau river, emphatic-Furiant from The Bartered Bride
- George Gershwin
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- Steve Reich
- phasing-Come Out, Clapping Music
- Arnold Schoenberg
- 1874-1951, Vienna then U.S., expressionism-Pierrot Lunaire-sprechstimme (spoken song)
- Tan Dun
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- Scott Joplin
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- Igor Stravinsky
- 1882-1971, Russian, settled in France then U.S., early collaboration with Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, large, romantic era orchestra, Russian themes, neo-classism, serialism-Firebird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring
- Hector Berlioz
- 1803-1869 studied composition at Paris conservatory, music critic, conductor, master of orchestration
- Charlie Parker
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- Richard Wagner
- 1813-1883, opposed to traditional Italian opera, "music drama" (not drama), German Romantic Opera traditions, greater role for orchestra, supernatural plots, controversial writings about music and race, lietmotiv-Ring Cycle
- Edgard Varèse
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- Johannes Brahms
- 1833-1897, vienna, conservative center of music tradition, friend of Robert and Clara Schumann-Variations on Haydn
- Milton Babbitt
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