Steven T.

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Claude Debussy Erik Satie Maurice Ravel

1862–1918
Claude Debussy was a French composer. He
is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist
composer, although he vigorously rejected
the term. He was among the most influential
composers of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
Compositions:
La Mer
Rêverie
1866–1925
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, who signed his
name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French
composer and pianist. He was the son of
a French father and a British mother. He
studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but
was an undistinguished student and
obtained no diploma.
Composition:
Gnossiennes
Gymnopèdie
1875–1937
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French
composer, pianist and conductor. He is
often associated with Impressionism
along with his elder contemporary
Claude Debussy, although both
composers rejected the term. In the
1920s and 1930s Ravel was
internationally regarded as France's
greatest living composer.
Compositions:
Boléro
Sonatine

Ernest Fanelli
Karol Szymanowski
1860–1917
1882–1937
Ernest Fanelli was a French composer
Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a
of Italian descent who is best known
Polish composer and pianist. He was a
for sparking a controversy about the
member of the modernist Young
origins of Impressionist music when
Poland movement that flourished in
his composition Tableaux
the late 19th and early 20th century.
symphoniques was first performed in
Compositions:
1912.
Kròl Roger
Compositions:
Violin Concerto No. 1
Mascarade
Suite Rabelaisienne

Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an
Austrian-American composer, music theorist, better known as Anton Webern, was an
teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely
considered one of the most influential
composers of the 20th century. He was
associated with the expressionist movement in steadfast embrace of then novel atonal
German poetry and art, and leader of the
Second Viennese School.
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian
composer, pianist, and
ethnomusicologist. He is considered one
of the most important composers of the
20th century; he and Franz Liszt are
regarded as Hungary's greatest
composers.
Anton Webern Alban Berg
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an
Austrian composer of the Second
Austrian composer whose music was Viennese School. His compositional style
among the most radical of its milieu in combined Romantic lyricism with the
its sheer concision, even aphorism, and twelve-tone technique.
and twelve-tone techniques. .
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist
composer, one of the first American composers of
international renown. His music was largely
ignored during his early career, and many of his
works went unperformed for many years.