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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was an Austrian-Jewish Conductor and was known his 10 symphonies and how he inserted flavors of Romanticism in his orchestral pieces. Mahler, even though music seemed to be in the background years after his death was a substantial influence to many other great composers such as Arnold Schoenberg. -
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Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a French composer who created a huge impact in music in the 20th century. Debussy was a huge fan of the ideals of Impressionist and Symbolist and even found inspiration from them for his works. He is known for the originality in his harmonies and music structure. My favorite work of his is Clair de lune! -
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer who implemented the musical compositions of atonality, serialism, and the 12-tone row as well as a phenomenal instructor of music. One of his most notable pieces was Fantasia for violin with piano accompaniment. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer and was noted for his work before and after WWI. Stravinsky ushered in a new musical thought process that consisted of a modern-like sound. Among his most important works was The Rite of Spring which was revolutionary when it came the constantly changing rhythms, metric imbalances, and distant harmonies. -
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse was a French-bron American composer and inventor who was know for his techniques in sound production. When it came to the style of his music, it was very rhythmically asymmetrical, dissonant, and non-thematic. Varèse also had a hard concentration in Electric music due to just being invented. Wind instruments and percussion were used by Varèse to implement the style of Hyperprism. -
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Alban Berg
Alban Berg was an Austrian composer who the epitome of a late 19th century pioneer in Romanticism. Berg was know for for his atonal and 12-tone compositions and was also a pupil of Arnold Schoenburg. He incorporated techniques like complex chromatic expressionism in many of his works. -
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