Music in the 20th Century changed dramatically, due to the hostile political climate, advances in technology, and huge shifts in style. Many composers, struggling to build any further on the music of ...

Naomi: Another country with a huge influence in 20th Century music is Russia. Ludwig: Who is zis man? Vhy so serious? Naomi: This is Dmitri Shostakovich. Born in 1906, he was a Russian composer ...

Tomasz Sikorski and Zygmunt Krauze | The Perspective of the Last Decade of the 20th Century | The youngest generation. The term 'Polish composers' school' was popularised in the early 1960s mainly by ...

In the 20th century, composers thought about different ... As well as creating extreme dissonances, some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone.

After the second world war the younger generation wanted to forge a new path for music going forwards. Shostakovich and Boulez were in the thick of it. No two composers of the 20th century stand ...

An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th ... century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music ...

More than 100,000 scores, in addition to the complete musical and personal archive of 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg ... where he died. Belmont Music Publishers, founded in 1965 ...