20th century music

A brief history of classical music periods. Get to know the different periods of classical music and the key composers during the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century Period.

Pictures and details of Music is the Message: 20th Century Paintings and Drawings at ACA Galleries, New York, July 16 – October 5, 2019 – Contemporary art with installation views

BREVAL (THE CONCERT IN THE SALON)

The Internet Archive has a surprisingly deep collection of records made of insect secretions.

Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 in Toronto ON – 4 October 1982) Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music. Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster.

Claude Debussy Por Parker Quartet The 1890s rank among the most productive years of Debussy’s life. From this decade date the Suite Bergamasque for piano (home of the ever-popular Clair de Lune), the seductive orchestral Nocturnes, most of his work on the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, and the only string quartet he ever wrote. Debussy was 31 when the Quartet in G Minor appeared in 1893, a truly personal and original statement. His distinctive musical language would appear fully formed the…

Use Changes and Variations in your Theme

Ragtime began as a genre of popular song and, much like later jazz music, it is a hybrid of elements from white European music and black American music.

22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918 (Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris.

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