MUTH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Emmanuel Chabrier, Maurice Ravel
12 Mar 2016
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France, italy) such composers cultivated a musical style distinct from the mainstream (germany, france, italy) Examples of nationalist composers: bohemian, modern czech rep: dvorak, smetana, janacek, russia: glinka, rimsky-korsakov, musorgsky, borodin, finland: sibelius, denmark: nielsen, norway: grieg, spain: granados, de falla, great britain: elgar, vaughan williams, wagner. Kuchka (mighty five): a group of nationalist russian composers. Wanted their music to express the uniqueness of the russian nation abandoned the rules and traditions of german, italian, and french music influenced by earlier russian nationalist composer glinka. Musorgsky pictures at an exhibition originally a set of character pieces for solo piano orchestrated by ravel (french composer) in 1922 represents musorgsky"s experience of attending an memorial exhibition by nationalist russian painter viktor hartmann. 10 pictures in total; we"re studying the first and last. Promenade sections represents musorgsky"s hanging moods as he walks between paintings his impression of the pictures, a subjective experience.
