5.22 Modernism Between the Wars

French composer that studied for 16 years at the Paris Conservatory, and focused on clarity meticulously, along with being great with sonority (lived 1875-1937)

Talented and trained composer and pianist who directed the Budapest Academy of Music, wrote the Mikrokosmos and books on folk music, along with opposing the Nazis strongly (lived 1881-1945)

Very early American avant-garde modernist, female, skilled pianist, wrote atonal music w/ dissonant harmonies full time 1925-1933, used counterpoint, collected/transcribed American folk music (lived 1901-1953)

Mississippian and (uniquely) African-American, w/ middle-class parents- studied science, then music on scholarship, winning two Guggenheim Fellowships, associated w/ the Harlem Renaissance, arranged important public music, remembered for pathbreaking concert music, opera, ballet, etc. (lived 1895-1978)

Russian-Jewish kid from Brooklyn, studied in Paris and worked w/ Nadia Boulanger, promoted American music, started w/ avant-garde modernism, then Stravinsky style, then more traditional (lived 1900-1990)

Ukranian child prodigy, concert pianist, conductor, and composer, who first wrote radical music then music w/ clear tonality, tunefulness, and Russian folk themes, global star by 1930s, music banned in Russia for a time, wrote Peter and the Wolf(lived 1891-1953)

Radical Modernism

Formality

In the 1920s

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