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 ...
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 ...
The history and politics of the 20th Century provided inspiration for the diverse range of musical styles developed between 1900 and 1999, pioneered by composers ranging from Elgar and Britten, to ...
A massive collection of sheet music spanning the whole career of 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg was lost in the Pacific Palisades fire. The collection, maintained by a publishing company run ...