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Expressionism

Expressionism is an early 20th-century aesthetic trend originating in Germany, focusing on conveying emotional states rather than accurate representations. In music, it emphasizes intense emotions through dissonance, dynamic contrasts, and unconventional melodies, with notable composers like Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Schoenberg, a key figure in modernist music, transformed harmony and created influential works, while Stravinsky blended 18th-century forms with contemporary styles.

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  • Skandalkonzert,
  • Petrouchka,
  • composer,
  • music theorist,
  • intense emotions,
  • Germany,
  • choral music,
  • artistic expression,
  • The Rite of Spring,
  • melodies
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Expressionism

Expressionism is an early 20th-century aesthetic trend originating in Germany, focusing on conveying emotional states rather than accurate representations. In music, it emphasizes intense emotions through dissonance, dynamic contrasts, and unconventional melodies, with notable composers like Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Schoenberg, a key figure in modernist music, transformed harmony and created influential works, while Stravinsky blended 18th-century forms with contemporary styles.

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Topics covered

  • Skandalkonzert,
  • Petrouchka,
  • composer,
  • music theorist,
  • intense emotions,
  • Germany,
  • choral music,
  • artistic expression,
  • The Rite of Spring,
  • melodies

EXPRESSIONISM

An aesthetic trend called


expressionism aims to portray
emotional estates.
Germany was the primary
genesis of it in the early 1900s.
Instead of accurate portrayals of
people or the natural world, art
refers to expressing personal
feelings, inner experiences, and
Expressionism in music,
emerging in the early 20th
century, was a modernist
movement that sought to
convey intense emotions
and inner psychological
states through music,
a high degree of
dissonance
extreme contrasts of
dynamics (from
pianissimo to
fortissimo, very soft to
constant changing of
textures
"distorted" melodies
and harmonies
angular melodies
with wide leaps
ARNOLD
SCHOENBERG
1874-1951
Born in Vienna,
Austria on September
13, 1874
was an Austrian and
American composer,
He was among the first
modernists who
transformed the practice
of harmony in 20th-
century classical music,
and a central element of
his music was its use of
His works were
greatly influenced by the
German composer Richard
Wagner as evident in his
symphonic poem Pelleas et
Melisande, Op. 5
(1903), a counterpoint of
His works include the
following:
Verklarte Nacht
Three Pieces for Piano, op.
11
Pierrot Lunaire
Violin Concerto
Skandalkonzert, a concert of
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4,
string sextet for two
violins, two violas, and
two cellos by Austrian-
born American composer
Arnold Schoenberg that
Verklärte Nacht
("Transfigured
Night") was inspired
by a mystical poem
by Richard Dehmel
Schoenberg’s
approximately 213
musical compositions
include concerti,
orchestral music, piano
music, operas, choral
He experienced
Triskaidekaphobia
(fear of number 13).
Schoenberg died on July
13, 1951 in Los Angeles,
California,
IGOR
STRAVINSK
Y
Born in
Oranienbaum (now
Lomonosov), Russia
on June 17, 1882.
When he left Russia
for Unite States in
1939, he slowly
turned his back on
Russian nationalism
and cultivated his
He adapted the
forms of the 18 th

century with his


contemporary style
of writing.
Despite its
“shocking”
modernity, his music
is also very
structured, precise,
Some of his works:
 Petrouchka (1911)
 The Rite of Spring

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