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Mahler (1860-1911)
Gustav Mahler was an Austrian Jewish composer that was an important leader of the romantic era. He was known for many of his symphonies and songs with orchestra. His composing techniques were both taken from the late 19th and early 20th century. His compositions influenced a great deal of composers into the 20th century. -
Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy was a French composer who is known for his very original works with a new system of harmony. Debussy challenged the traditional lyrical string sound and introduced a new color of sound with the pizzicato scherzo in one of his string quartets. -
Strauss (1864-1949)
Richard Strauss was a German composer known for his romantic operas. He wrote for large orchestras though was able to add the delicacy of chamber ensembles within these works. Strauss also included lots of poems into his operas and these are now standard repertoire today. -
Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer who was known for creating new methods of composition including atonality. He became a big influence and teacher amongst many other well known composers. He invented the 12-tone method which he used in the majority of his works. Though, he still came back to traditional tonal music every so often. -
Bartok (1881-1945)
Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer who wrote a variety of things including orchestral works, piano solos, as well as folk songs for voice and piano. He was known for his original works that mended together both Hungarian and folk music with traditional music. -
Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer who was a famous modern composer during which he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal in 1954 as well as the Wihuri Sibelius Prize in 1963. He created music involving complicated rhythm and metric imbalances with lots of dissonant harmonies. He was known for being constantly creative in each of his works and could jump from style to style with brilliance. -
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Genres during Post-Romanticism
The major genres during this time were operas, symphonies, songs that were traditionally late romantic and early modernist. -
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Musical stylistic traits
During the Post-Romanticism era there was a new way of composing music using atonality. There were many different forms including, Rondo form, scherzo and trio form, sonata form, sonata-rondo form, theme and variations form, and more. -
Milhaud (1892-1974)
Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was known for his original works that were influenced by jazz and polytonality. He wrote many different pieces for large and small ensembles with a variety of instrumentation. He also wrote opera and dance music which were very popular and well known. -
Music and Media
Guglielmo Marconi first invented the radio telegraph system. This pushed music through the media faster and promoted it in a new way. -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
During this era, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated and this led into World War I. -
World War I
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in 1914 that started the First World War. -
19th Amendment
The United States Constitution passed this amendment that gave women the right to vote.
