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Initially a facet of the visual arts, the Expressionist movement was best delineated by the painter Vincent van Gogh, when he consciously used different colours and forms to express his feelings about a particular subject. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the art world embraced expressionist works as created by the likes of Munch and ...

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one might expect, yet her cold and detached words inform us that she is not a maternal figure. Personalities | Alban Berg | Modern Era | Opera Techniques | Expressionism | Modern Era | Opera ...

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1926–2012, German A prolific composer of many moods and changes, Henze was yet another 12-note serialist who nonetheless was influenced by neo-classicism, expressionism and jazz. His first full-length opera, Boulevard Solitude (1952), preceded his move to Italy the following year. There, having finally put distance between himself and the repressive Germany of his youth, Henze’s ...

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1895–1963, German A composer, solo performer, conductor, teacher and theorist, Hindemith’s work boasted an eclectic array of musical styles, ranging from the expressionism of his first three one-act operas – now all but forgotten – to the polyphony of his later neo-Baroque output. The first signs of this transition could be heard in Cardillac (1926 ...

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Strauss increasingly turned to opera. In first Salome (1905), then Elektra (1909), he treated melodramatic subjects with a histrionic musical language that verged on the atonal. These works of musical expressionism are contemporaneous with the radical, atonal experiments of Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), but in his next opera, Der Rosenkavalier (1911), and in his music of the following 37 years, ...

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, and this exodus continued throughout the 1930s. Music and modernism became inextricably linked, when various aspects of modernity – the avant-garde, Dadaism, surrealism, modernism and expressionism – began to explode across the socio-cultural landscape. The bourgeois aesthetic was replaced by a leaner, sparser, musical palette that was often driven by ethnically influenced rhythms and ...

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lain behind such widely differing works as Kleine Kammermusik op. 24 No. 2 (‘Little Chamber Music’, 1922) by Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) and Stravinsky’s Octet (1922–23). Schoenberg also moved from overt Expressionism after his adoption of the 12-note system to a greater use of abstract forms. His pupil Anton Webern (1883–1945), though still claiming allegiance to musical expressiveness, in fact moved ...

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They were also the first to receive criticism for using their role to further their own ideals as opposed to simply presenting opera in its best light. The Birth of Expressionism The realist and naturalist aesthestics became increasingly extreme as the nineteenth century progressed. The Swedish writer Johan August Strindberg was strongly influenced by Ibsen’s naturalism. By the late 1880s, ...

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with Europe. Weisgall’s operas, including The Tenor (1952) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (1959), fashioned a modern, though never avant-garde, American idiom from Germanic expressionism and Italianate neo-classicism. In his 13 operas, including Postcard from Morocco (1972) and The Aspern Papers (1988), Argento combined a highly literate dramatic sense with intensely melodic vocal writing. ...

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intense expressivity. Today, serialism has enabled composers to experiment with sound much in the same way that explorations in the visual arts were regarded as ‘abstract expressionism’. Techniques | Expressionism | Modern Era | Opera ...