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Euro Composers

YGK These Early 20th-Century European Composers

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The Hungarian composer who was a pioneer in ethnomusicology and used a phonograph to record folk music Béla Bartók
The title of Bartók’s 1944 work named for its virtuosic treatment of every orchestral family rather than a single soloist Concerto for Orchestra
The term for Bartók’s music intended to evoke quiet, moonlit natural scenes Night music
The French composer who developed a modernist style as a reaction against Richard Wagner Claude Debussy
The orchestral work by Debussy that begins with a solo flute playing a partial chromatic scale Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The musical technique used in "The Engulfed Cathedral" featuring chords moving in parallel instead of traditional progression Planing
The German composer who moved to the U.S. and developed the ideal of Gebrauchsmusik, or "music for use" Paul Hindemith
The Hindemith opera based on the life of artist Matthias Grünewald and the Isenheim Altarpiece Mathis der Maler
The Hindemith viola concerto in which the composer himself premiered the solo part Der Schwanendreher
The late 19th-century symphonist who was also a renowned conductor for the Vienna State Opera and the New York Philharmonic Gustav Mahler
The nickname for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony due to the massive number of performers required Symphony of a Thousand
The vocal symphony by Mahler that sets translated Chinese poetry as an expression of his despair Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
The Russian virtuoso pianist known for his massive hands and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Sergei Rachmaninoff
The composer whose First Symphony was cruelly described by Cesar Cui as a product of a “conservatory in Hell” Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Ravel work consisting of one very long, gradual crescendo over a repeating snare drum ostinato Bolero
The 1917 piano suite by Ravel in which each movement memorializes a friend killed in World War I Le tombeau de Couperin
The modernist French composer of Gymnopédies whose work is cited as an early form of minimalism Erik Satie
The Satie keyboard fragment that is commonly performed 840 times in succession Vexations
The group of young modernist French composers, including Poulenc and Milhaud, who were influenced by Satie Les Six
The Austrian composer who developed the twelve-tone method of composition in the early 1920s Arnold Schoenberg
The collective name for Arnold Schoenberg and his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern Second Viennese School
The 1912 Schoenberg work that utilized the half-sung, half-spoken technique of sprechstimme Pierrot lunaire
The Finnish composer who was inspired by his homeland and stopped composing for the last three decades of his life Jean Sibelius
The intensely patriotic Sibelius work written during Finland’s occupation by Russia which had to be presented under alternate titles Finlandia
The Sibelius suite based on the Finnish folk epic the Kalevala Lemminkäinen Suite
The Sibelius symphony, innovatively written in only a single movement, in C major Seventh Symphony
The Russian composer whose output is divided into Russian, neoclassical, and serial periods Igor Stravinsky
The head of the Ballets Russe who commissioned Stravinsky’s early ballets Serge Diaghilev
The Stravinsky ballet whose 1913 premiere caused a riot due to its shocking modernistic elements The Rite of Spring
The Stravinsky ballet that sparked his neoclassical period, based on older music attributed to Pergolesi Pulcinella
The major neoclassical work by Stravinsky written for chorus and orchestra, featuring biblical text Symphony of Psalms
The plotless 1957 ballet by Stravinsky that marked his shift into serialism Agon
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