Expressionism music history

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Expressionism , like impressionism, originated in the visual arts and was then applied to other arts including music. Expressionism can be considered a reaction to the ethereal sweetness of impressionism. Instead of  impressions of natural beauty, expressionism looks inward to the angst and fear lurking in the subconscious mind.

In music, expressionism is manifest in the full embrace of jarring dissonance. Initially expressionism was a modernist movement, in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century  as an avant-garde style before the First World War. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian-American composer (1874–1951)

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Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg in Los Angeles, c. 1948

Born(1874-09-13)13 September 1874

Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Died13 July 1951(1951-07-13) (aged 76)

Los Angeles, California, US

Occupations
  • Composer
  • music theorist
  • teacher
Known forSecond Viennese School
WorksList of compositions

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg[a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

Schoenberg's early works, like Verklärte Nacht (1899), represented a Brahmsian–Wagnerian synthesis on which he built.

Expressionism is a term that, like impressionism, originated in the visual arts and was then applied to other arts including music. Expressionism can be considered a reaction to the ethereal sweetness of impressionism. Instead of gauzy impressions of natural beauty, expressionism looks inward to the angst and fear lurking in the subconscious mind. In music, expressionism is manifest in the full embrace of jarring dissonance.

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Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during theWeimar Republic, particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literat

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