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Honor composer in 2013

One shouldn't overlook the birthdays commemorative of the musicians who made moved the music: the centenary of the death of Massenet, the centenary of birth of John Cage, or the 400 years which separate us from the death of Hassler. Let us not forget either Deluis, Debussy, Ibert or Nancarrow...

June 2013

Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

History of Music :

modern music (1890 - 1945)

This period is that of the handing-over in question: one attends the widening of the tonality then to his progressive decline. With this suspension of the tonality, several theories were dawning: the six tones (Debussy), the twelve semitones - dodecaphony (Schoenberg), abolish the harmonic functions (already started by Wagner and Franck), the harmonic polytonality or to dare the agreement of twelve notes (Berg). Consequently the abolition of the tonality generates a new design of musical time.

Isaac Albéniz is regarded today as a pioneer in the rebirth of the Spanish music at the beginning of the XXs. Equipped with a generous temperament and an inspiration without limits, he gives to his music an Andalusian character, mixing with the romantic influence of Mendelssohn, Schumann or Liszt. He's one of the first Spanish composers, with Granados, to base a music on traditional popular elements and to open the way to his successors of which most faithful representing is Manuel of Falla.

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Thomas Augustine Arne is one of the British musicians most popular of his time. He was especially a talented type-setter of operas, leaving behind him about thirty works for the theater, of tens of instrumental parts and religious vocal works.

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