Music History II

By twalke73
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    Beethoven

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    Schubert

  • Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

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    Fanny Hensel Das Jahr

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    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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    Robert Schumann

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    Frederic Chopin

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    Franz Liszt

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    Richard Wagner

    He was a part of the German Romantic Opera style which utilized the orchestra in fairy-tale stories. He created his own genre: Music Dramas that truly combined all the arts into masterpieces of performance. He began the destruction of tonality. He was an important person in the development of modern conducting. He was thought to be a successor to Beethoven.
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    Guiseppe Verdi

    He had a philosophy of Opera that mainly involved creating serious and melodramatic stories and music. He became a symbol for Nationalism with the campaign VIVA VERDI! There was always a division of four in his creations: a prologue and 3 Acts, 4 Acts, or 3 Acts with one divided clearly into 2 scenes.
    He was given the task of saving Italian Opera and did so with Otello and Falstaff, however, they were different than anything he had ever done before. Yet, his revitalization was successful.

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1

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    French Grand Opera

  • Symphony No.8 “Unfinished”

  • Symphony No.9

    Composed 1823; premiered 1824
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    12 Études d’exécution transcendante

  • Symphonie fantastique

  • Mazurkas Op.7

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    Johannes Brahms

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    Carnaval

  • Invention of the Saxophone

    Adolphe Sax

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Violin Concerto in E minor

  • La traviata

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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

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    Moguchaya kuchka

    1856-1870 technically - everyone joined by 1862. Name was given in 1867.

  • Tristan und Isolde

  • Musikverein

  • National Society for French Music

  • Boris Godunov

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    Smetana's Ma Vlast-Moldau

    Ma Vlast - 1874-1879
    Moldau - 1874

  • Carmen

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms Symphony No.4

  • Otello

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Richard Strauss' Salome

  • Pierrot Lunaire

  • Le sacre du Printemps

  • Les Six Francais

    Meet in 1917 Paris Conservatory
    Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
    Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
    Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
    Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
    Georges Auric (1899-1983)
    Louis Durey (1888-1979) Jean Cocteau named the group Les Six Francais in 1920

  • Charles Ives's Essays before a Sonata

  • Schonberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

    1921-1923

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Henry Cowell - The Banshee

    Henry Cowell (1897-1965)

  • Puccini's Turandot

  • Louis Armstrong's Hotter Than That

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

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    Edward Varese's Poeme Electronique

    Brussels Exposition in 1958

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

    This song depicts the nightmares of the Vietnam War. The stings are electronically amplified. Crumb composed music that sounded like plans and sirens. The music unleashes the anxiety and horror of a terrible war.

  • Del Tredici Final Alice

  • Glass Koyaanisqatsi

  • Short Ride in a Fast Machine

  • John Adams' Dr. Atomic