MODERN

NATIONALISM
GROUP 4
Modern Nationalism

 Is a looser form of 20th century music

development focused on nationalist composers
and musical innovators who sought to combine
modern techniques with folk materials.
Bela Bartok – Hungarian Composer
 Bela Bartok – Hungarian Composer

 Born in Hungary on March 25,

1881
 A neo-classicist, primitivist, and
nationalist composer
 Most famous for his Six Spring
Quartets (1908-1938)
 Bela Bartok – Hungarian Composer

 He infused Classical techniques

into his own brand of cross
rhythms and shifting meters to
demonstrate many barbaric and
primitive themes that were
Hungarian – particularly gypsy – in
origin.
Sergei Prokofief
Sergei Prokofief – Russian
Composer

 Born in Ukraine 1891

 A neo-classicist, nationalist, and
avant-garde composer
 Was highly successful in his piano
music
Sergei Prokofief – Russian
Composer

 He used striking dissonances and

Russian themes
 His music was generally witty,
bold, and at times colored with
humor
 Sergei Prokofief – Russian
Composer

Together with Bartok,

Prokofieff made extensive
use of polytonality.
Visions Fugitive – a great
example of his style.
Russian Five
Modern Nationalism
Modest Mussorgsky
 Modest Mussorgsky

 Born on March 21, 1839

 One of the group known as
“Russian Five”
 His works are stylistically
Romantic and draw heavily on
Russian musical themes
Mili Balakirev
Mili Balakirev

 Born on December 21, 1836 in

Nizhny Novgorod into a noble
Russian family.
 Composer, pianist and conductor
 Known today primarily for his work
promoting musical nationalism
and his encouragement of more
famous Russians composer.
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin

 Born on October 31, 1833

in St, Petersbrug, Russia.
 Russian composer and a
scientist,
 He had a strong lyric vein
but also was noted for his
handling of heroic subject
 Died on February 27,
1887 at the age of 53 .
Cesar Cui
 Cesar Cui

 Born on January 18,1935

 Belonged to the group Russian Five.
 Before he became a composer and
music critic, he was an officer of the
Imperial Russian Army.
 In 1856, when he met Balakirev, his
musical direction changed and took an
engrossing interest in Balakirev’s
notion about a distinctively Russian
national style in music.
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
 Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

 Born on March 18, 1844 in Tikhvin,

Russia
 Master of Orchestration
 Believed in developing a nationalistic
style of classical music as did his fellow
composers.
 Famous compositions include Capriccio
Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Faster Festival
Overture and Scheherezade.
 Died on June 21, 1908 due to angina.
Erik Satie
Erik Satie

 Born on May 17, 1886 in Honfleur,

France
 Composer, pianist, gymnopedist,
phonometrician
 Called a clumsy but subtle
technician based on the
comtemporary French composers
 Died on July 1, 1925 on Arcueil ,
France