Modernism (music)
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In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in chall
Richard Strauss in 1888, the year he composed Don Juan, a work emblematic of the élan vital and "breakaway mood" of modernism
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century a
Modernism (music)
…37) [emphasis added] Examples include the celebration of Arnold Schoenberg's rejection of tonality in chromatic post-tonal and twelve-tone works and Igor Stravinsky's move away from symmetrical rhythm. Authorities typically regard musical modernism as a historical period or era extending from about 1890 to 1930…
Stravinsky in the early 1920s
Yekaterina Stravinsky in 1907
Diaghilev in 1916
Opening measures of the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, showing the odd meters and chords