20th Century Composers.
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| show | Igor Stravinsky
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| Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov | show 🗑
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| The Firebird ballet | show 🗑
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| The Rite of Spring | show 🗑
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| one of his pieces incited a riot | show 🗑
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| Symphony of Psalms | show 🗑
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| Wrote an opera with libretto by W.H. Auden | show 🗑
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| Adopted twelve-tone system and composed the ballet Argon | show 🗑
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| Scherzo fantastique; Fireworks (orchestral works) | show 🗑
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| The Soldier's Tale (after World War I) | show 🗑
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| 1874-1951 | show 🗑
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| Austrian pioneer of dodecaphony (twelve-tone system) | show 🗑
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| show | Schoenberg
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| Transfigured Night (for strings) | show 🗑
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| show | halfway between singing and speaking (German for "speech voice")
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| Pierrot lunaire (a Sprechstimme piece) | show 🗑
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| his students: Alban Berg and Anton Webern | show 🗑
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| Moved from Berlin to L.A. in 1933 | show 🗑
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| show | Schoenberg
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| Moses and Aaron (uncompleted opera) | show 🗑
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| show | Schoenberg
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| show | Schoenberg
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| show | Benjamin Britten
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| show | Britten
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| show | Britten
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| Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (his composition teacher) | show 🗑
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| wrote incidental music for works by his friend W.H. Auden | show 🗑
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| show | Britten
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| Founded the Aldeburgh Festival of Music | show 🗑
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| show | Britten
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| show | Britten
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| War Requiem (based on poems by Wilfred Owen) | show 🗑
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| Britten's first opera | show 🗑
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| The Rape of Lucretia; Alvert Herring | show 🗑
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| based on part of The Borough by George Crabbe | show 🗑
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream; Gloriana (to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II); Owen Wingrave | show 🗑
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| show | Britten
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| Elizabeth II made him Baron ____ of Aldeburgh | show 🗑
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| 1900-1990 | show 🗑
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| first American student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1920s | show 🗑
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| show | Copland
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| show | Copland
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| show | Copland
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| Appalachian Spring (ballet featuring "Simple Gifts") | show 🗑
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| show | Copland
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| show | Copland
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| What to Listen For in Music (educational book) | show 🗑
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| studied under Rubin Goldmark | show 🗑
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| The Second Hurricane (opera for high school students) | show 🗑
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| Of Mice and Men; Our Town (film scores) | show 🗑
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| The Heiress (film score that won him the 1949 Academy Award for best dramatic film score) | show 🗑
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| show | Copland
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| show | Copland
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| show | Sergei Prokofiev
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| First, or Classical Symphony | show 🗑
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| The Love for Three Oranges (opera) | show 🗑
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| show | Prokofiev
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| show | Prokofiev
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| Died on the same day as Stalin, March 5 (outlived Stalin by a few hours) | show 🗑
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| show | Prokofiev
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| show | Prokofiev
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| Rome and Juliet (ballet); War and Peace (opera) | show 🗑
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| show | Prokofiev
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| show | Prokofiev
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| show | Prokofiev
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| 1906-1975 | show 🗑
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| The Nose; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (operas) | show 🗑
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| show | Shostakovich
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| Received the Order of Lenin in 1956 | show 🗑
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| show | Shostakovich
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| show | Shostakovich
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| show | Bela Bartok
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| Roamed the Hungarian countryside with Zoltan Kodaly, collecting peasant tunes | show 🗑
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| show | Bartok
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| The Wooden Prince (ballet) | show 🗑
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| The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet) | show 🗑
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| Mikrokosmos | show 🗑
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| Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta | show 🗑
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| show | Bartok
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| show | Bartok
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| Dance Suite; Divertimento; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Ives
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| His father, George, was a local Connecticut businessman and bandleader | show 🗑
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| show | Ives
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| His insurance firm was the largest in New York during the 1910s | show 🗑
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| show | Ives
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| show | Ives
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| show | Ives
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| "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" (based on a poem by Vachel Lindsay) | show 🗑
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| show | Ives
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| Holidays; Three Quarter-Tone Pieces; 114 Songs (symphonies) | show 🗑
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| Married Harmony Twitchell | show 🗑
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| 1875-1937 | show 🗑
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| Rapsodie espagnole | show 🗑
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| Bolero | show 🗑
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| show | Ravel
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| Pavane for a Dead Princess | show 🗑
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| the French Conservatory overlooked him for the Prix de Rome four ties | show 🗑
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| Daphnis et Chloe (ballet) | show 🗑
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| show | Ravel
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| re-orchestrated Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition | show 🗑
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| show | Ravel
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| show | Ravel
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| show | Ravel
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| show | Ravel
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| show | Ravel
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| show | George Gershwin
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| show | Gershwin
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| show | Gershwin
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| Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra | show 🗑
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| show | Gershwin
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| show | Gershwin
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| Of Thee I Sing (musical that was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama [1931]) | show 🗑
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| died of a brain tumor at age 38 | show 🗑
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| show | Gershwin
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| George's White Sandals | show 🗑
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| Lady Be Good | show 🗑
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| show | Gershwin
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| show | Gershwin
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| "The Man I Love"; "I Got Rhythm"; "Someone to Watch Over Me" | show 🗑
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| 1912-1992 | show 🗑
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| American student of Arnold Schoenberg and Henry Cowell | show 🗑
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| Dada composer/aleatory or "chance" music | show 🗑
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| Imaginary Landscape No 4 (used 12 radios tuned to different stations) | show 🗑
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| 4'33" (for piano) | show 🗑
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| show | Cage
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| show | Cage
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| collaborated with dancer Merce Cunningham | show 🗑
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| show | Cage
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| Music of Changes (chance music, using the book I Ching, or Book of Changes) | show 🗑
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| show | Cage
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| HPSCHD (collaboration with Lejaren Hiller) | show 🗑
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| Renga (included drawings by Thoreau) | show 🗑
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| Apartment House 1776 (mixed-media piece for musicircus-two orcehstras and four vocalists) | show 🗑
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| Europeras 1/2 (his first opera) | show 🗑
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| show | Ralph Vaughan Williams
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| Revived the Tudor style and folk traditions in English music | show 🗑
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| Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | show 🗑
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| First (Sea) Symphony; Third (Pastoral) Symphony; Seventh (sinfonia antarctica) | show 🗑
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| The Lark Ascending (based on a poem by George Meredith) | show 🗑
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| Hugh the Drover (opera) | show 🗑
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| The Pilgrim's Progress (opera) | show 🗑
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| Studied with Max Bruch and Maurice Ravel | show 🗑
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| show | Vaughan Williams
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| Conducted at the Leith Hill Music Festival from 1909 to 1953 | show 🗑
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| 1873-1943 | show 🗑
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| show | Rachmaninoff
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| C-Sharp Minor Prelude | show 🗑
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| Treated by hypnosis in 1901 | show 🗑
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| Second Piano Concerto (known as Rocky II) | show 🗑
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| The Isle of the Dead (symphonic poem) | show 🗑
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| show | Rachmaninoff
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| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | show 🗑
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| Took piano from his cousin Aleksander Siloti (who took from Franz Liszt) | show 🗑
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| Also studied with Anton Arensky, Sergey Taneyev, and Peter Tchaikovsky | show 🗑
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| show | Rachmaninoff
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| 2nd Trio elegiaque (written in memory of Tchaikovsky) | show 🗑
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| show | Rachmaninoff
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| The Bells (choral symphony based on the poem by Poe) | show 🗑
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| show | Rachmaninoff
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| Variations on a Theme of Corelli | show 🗑
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