1880–1959 Swiss-American composer Bloch studied in Belgium and Germany, and his early works are in a rich late-Romantic style that owes much to Richard Strauss; this stage culminated in his powerful opera Macbeth (1909). In the following years, he sought a language that would reflect his Jewish faith in music of fervent solemnity with Eastern colouring: the symphony with ...
In the 1920s he toured the Soviet Union, and made his US debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1925. He was a keen advocate of contemporary music: Bartók, Bloch and Prokofiev wrote works for him, and he played the concertos of Berg and Stravinsky as well as the standard repertory. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | ...
the period (including Latin rhythms; one of the gangs is Puerto Rican) with love music not unworthy of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Ernest Bloch | Modern Era | Classical ...
1896–1985 American composer Influenced early in his career by Stravinsky and Bloch, whose teaching assistant he was in the early 1920s, and resident for some years in Europe (where he encountered Schoenberg’s music and witnessed the rise of Fascism), Sessions was regarded in the US as a more European than American composer. Though friendly with Copland (they organized a ...
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