
18 жовтня 2021
"The age of Tragedy" (1850-1890) from the book "The story of music" by Howard Goodall
Good afternoon, Authors, Translators and Publishing companies!
Today we will tell about the next chapter “The age of tragedy (1850-1890)” of the book “The story of music” by Howard Goodall.
Main moments:
- almost all music of the period is about destiny, death and doomed love;
- Paris was the center of opera production and all European opera composers moved to Paris;
- the most popular composers:
- French Hector Berlioz (“Symphonie fantastique”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Les Troyens”);
- Italian Giuseppe Verdi (“Nabucco”, “Stiffelio”, “Rigoletto”, “Il Trovare”, “La Traviata”);
- Italian Puccini (“Tosca”, “Madama Butterfly”);
- French-speaking Hungarian Franz Liszt (started Halloween style of music, full of dark, deep, loud chords; spectacular pianist, treated as “The King of piano”; perfected a keyboard style by impressionistic technique in “Fountains of the Villa d’Este”; invented symphonic poem in orchestral music; wrote nineteen “Hungarian Rhapsodies” for solo piano, folk songs, intended a patriotic and nostalgic purpose, included czardas dance);
- Czech Antonin Dvorak (symphony “From the New World”, was invited to New York to become a director of the new National Conservatory of Music, encouraged young American composers to adopt and develop the melodies of Native Americans and Afro-Americans communities in orchestral music);
- German Richard Wagner (operas “Tristan und Isolde”, “Parsifal”, “Ring cycle”, had his own theatre at Bayreuth, in operas used diminishing or augmented chords to create a sense of anxiety, uncertainty, nervousness).
You can enjoy the music of the age on Spotify.
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