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 ...