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Expressionist music would "thus reject the depictive, sensual qualities that had come to be associated with impressionist music. It would endeavor instead to realize its own purely musical nature—in part by disregarding compositional conventions that placed 'outer' restrictions on the expression of 'inner' visions".
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg [a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. 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 motives as a means of coherence.
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Zwei Gesänge [Two Songs] for baritone 1898 2 Vier Lieder [Four Songs] 1899/1900 3 Sechs Lieder [Six Songs] 1899/1903 4 Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night] 1899 5 Pelleas und Melisande: 1902/03 6 Acht Lieder [Eight Songs] for soprano 1903/05 7 String Quartet No. 1, D minor 1904/05 8 Sechs Lieder [Six Songs] with orchestra 1903/05 9
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (/ b ɛər ɡ / BAIRG, [1] German: [ˈalbaːn ˈbɛʁk]; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. [2]
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Berg's expressionist music emphasized Wozzeck's and other characters' emotions and thought processes, particularly Wozzeck's madness and alienation. Though atonal , it was not always without conventional function in its voice leading , extended tonicizations , or arguably tonal passages.
The Five Pieces further develop the notion of "total chromaticism" that Schoenberg introduced in his Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (composed earlier that year) and were composed during a time of intense personal and artistic crisis for the composer, this being reflected in the tensions and, at times, extreme violence of the score, mirroring the expressionist movement of the time, in particular ...