Early Modernist Music

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• Retinend

  "Connected Artists" is strange to me. A lot of avant-gardists working from past the 1920s. Shouldn't those just be considered plain "Modernist"? Personally I like music I call "Early Modernist" because it's not Romantic (excessive) and not Modernist (excessive), but nicely in between. Faure, Debussy, Delius and similar. Happy to be corrected in my understanding of this. I'm not taught in music history.

  Mês passado

• alleseter

  There's a nice article on The Rite of Spring on the AllmusicGuide: http://blog.allmusic.com/2009/3/27/augurs-of-spring-some-anecdotes-of-stravinskys-le-sacre-du-printemps/

  abril 2009

• Qimen

  Happy year 2009 to you !

  janeiro 2009

• alleseter

  A happy new year to you all!

  janeiro 2009

• SirAlecHendrix

  good response

  dezembro 2008

• alleseter

  (part 2): Respighi, Vaughan Williams, Holst and De Falla were clearly inspired by the then still modern impressionism of Debussy and Ravel. In Holst's Mars one can clearly hear in the inspiration of The Rite of Spring, Vaughan-Williams's 4th and 6th symphonies are full of expressionism. and the Chôros series by Villa-Lobos is strikingly modern, at times verging on the edge of noisy expressionism. In my opinion neo-classicism and 'neue sachlichkeit' (De Falla, Villa-Lobos), too are definitely anti-romantic and thus modern, if not as avant-garde as dodecafonism or Varèse's experiments. The only dubious artists may be Reger and Pfitzner, but before say 1905 they were as modern as music got at the time (when Wagner still was the main source of the avant-garde in Germany and Austria). Only afterwards, they got outdated.

  dezembro 2008

• alleseter

  It's true that some of the connected artists are not the avant-garde modernists themselves, but their contemporaries. I've chosen to connect all composers of an era, not only the pioneers, but also the followers. Yet, all the artists you mentioned definitely belong to the early 20th century, musically.

  dezembro 2008

• SirAlecHendrix

  i came to realize that some of the connected composers aren't what we would call modernists but neo-romanicists and neo-classicists who rejected avant-garde modernism (e.g. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ottorini Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Gustav Holst, etc.). Hans Pfitzner was a self-described anti-modernist, and i guess, Max Reger never had any contact with modernism ...

  dezembro 2008

• SirAlecHendrix

  we don't need to care about 'Overall' group charts, it's only a distraction. important is 'Unique to this Group' (unfortunately not default on last.fm), because it's the shuffle list for the group radio, and today it reads : 1 Igor Stravinsky 2 Maurice Ravel 3 Johann Sebastian Bach 4 Franz Schubert 5 Dmitri Shostakovich 6 Jean Sibelius 7 Erik Satie 8 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 9 Olivier Messiaen 10 Johannes Brahms

  novembro 2008

• howardiyoung

  The Beatles are at number 1, I find that to be trivially distressing

  julho 2008

• alleseter

  you're totally right! I've changed it

  junho 2008

• alleseter

  Thanx! No brandy or cigars, though... :-D

  junho 2008

• howardiyoung

  Does the leader get brandy and cigars?

  junho 2008

• joachimp

  Does anyone else think it's kinda ironic that the top artist is J.S. Bach?

  maio 2008

• howardiyoung

  Leaderless. Interesting. ..Where do I Join

  janeiro 2008

• alleseter

  Unfortunately, this group is practically leaderless. Findoctor has not be seen on last.fm since early 2006. :-(

  janeiro 2008

• sorelka

  Thank you for creating such a perfect group.... It gives me a chance to express my love for classical music of that period.

  dezembro 2007

• UnrealHari

  Test your musical skills: http://www.jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

  julho 2007

• UnrealHari

  Do you want to be a Neomodernist? Join our group The Neomodernists. http://www.last.fm/group/The+Neomodernists/connections

  abril 2007

• Ahamprema

  I think this period defined differences among romantics and new serialists following the serialist style with Webern and Alban Berg

  março 2007