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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?
What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?
Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?
How did composers respond to politics and war?
DISCOVER the stories behind Mahlers, Symphony No. 5 (1901-2), Ullmans Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944), Bernsteins West Side Story (1957), as well as learn about minimalism, jazz, swing, opera . . .
AND UNDERSTAND TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC.
Discover the answers and more inside Fiona Maddocks Twentieth Century Classical Music, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened throughout the 20th century, who the key composers were and what influenced them to write what they did?
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| Year | Births and deaths | Significant compositions/premieres |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Kurt Weill b. (d.1950) | Mahler Symphony No. 4; Puccini Tosca |
| 1901 | Giuseppe Verdi d. (b.1813); Ruth Crawford-Seeger b. (d.1953); Harry Partch b. (d.1974) | Faur Pellas et Mlisande Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 |
| 1902 | William Walton b. (d.1983) | Debussy Pellas et Mlisande |
| 1903 | Aram Khachaturian b. (d.1978) | Bruckner Symphony No. 9 |
| 1904 | Antonin Dvok d. (b.1841); Luigi Dallapiccola b. (d.1975) | Scriabin Symphony No. 3 |
| 1905 | Michael Tippett b. (d.1998) | Strauss Salome |
| 1906 | Dmitri Shostakovich b. (d.1975); Elisabeth Lutyens b. (d.1983) | Delius Sea Drift; Smyth The Wreckers |
| 1907 | Elizabeth Maconchy b. (d.1994) | Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 |
| 1908 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov d. (b.1844); Elliott Carter b. (d.2012) Olivier Messiaen b. (d.1992) | Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 |
| 1909 | Grayna Bacewicz b. (d.1969) | Strauss Elektra |
| 1910 | Samuel Barber b. (d.1981) | Stravinsky The Firebird |
| 1911 | Gustav Mahler d. (b.1860); Gian Carlo Menotti b. (d.2007) | Strauss Der Rosenkavalier; Mahler Das Lied von der Erde |
| 1912 | John Cage b. (d.1992); Conlon Nancarrow b. (d.1997) | Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire |
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten b. (d.1976); Lutold Lutosawski b. (d.1994) | Stravinsky Rite of Spring; Debussy Jeux |
| 1914 | Andrzej Panufnik b. (d.1991) | Enescu Symphony No. 2; Vaughan Williams A London Symphony |
| 1915 | Alexander Scriabin d. (b.1872) | Berg Fnf Orchesterlieder; Ives Three Places in New England |
| 1916 | George Butterworth d. (b.1885); Milton Babbitt b. (d.2011); Henri Dutilleux b. (d.2013) | Nielsen Symphony No. 4; Parry Jerusalem |
| 1917 | Scott Joplin d. (b.1867/8) | Respighi Fountains of Rome |
| 1918 | Claude Debussy d. (b.1862); Lili Boulanger d. (b.1893); Leonard Bernstein b. (d.1990); Bernd Alois Zimmermann b. (d.1970) | Bartk Bluebeards Castle; Janek Taras Bulba; Stravinsky The Soldiers Tale; Holst The Planets |
| 1919 | Galina Ustvolskaya b. (d.2006) | Clarke Sonata for Viola and Piano; Elgar Cello Concerto |
| 1920 | Max Bruch d. (b.1838); Bruno Maderna b. (d.1973) | Korngold Die Tote Stadt; Milhaud Le buf sur le toit; Ravel La valse |
| 1921 | Camille Saint-Sans d. (b.1835); Astor Piazzolla b. (d.1992) | Varse Amriques; Janek Katya Kabanova; Webern Passacaglia |
| 1922 | Iannis Xenakis b. (d.2001) | Hindemith Sancta Susanna |
| 1923 | Gyrgy Ligeti b. (d.2006); Ned Rorem b. | Sibelius Symphony No. 6 |
| 1924 | Gabriel Faur d. (b.1845); Giacamo Puccini d. (b.1858); Luigi Nono b. (d.1990) | Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue |
| 1925 | Erik Satie d. (b.1866); Pierre Boulez b. (d.2016); Gunther Schuller b. (d.2015) | Berg Wozzeck; Busoni Doktor Faust |
| 1926 | Carlisle Floyd b.; Gyrgy Kurtg b.; Morton Feldman b. (d.1987); Hans Werner Henze b. (d.2012) | Antheil Ballet mcanique; Puccini Turandot |
| 1927 | Bernard Parmegiani b. (d.2013) | Berg Lyric Suite; Prokofiev The Fiery Angel; Stravinsky Oedipus rex |
| 1928 | Leo Janek (b.1854); Ennio Morricone b.; Thea Musgrave b.; Karlheinz Stockhausen b. (d.2007); Einojuhani Rautavaara b. (d.2016) | Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra; Weill/Brecht Die Dreigroschenoper |
| 1929 | George Crumb b.; Andr Previn b.; Peter Sculthorpe b. (d.2014) | Blacher Jazz-Koloraturen |
| Year | Births and deaths | Significant compositions/premieres |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Robert Ashley b. (d.2014); Tru Takemitsu b. (d.1996); Veljo Tormis b. (d.2017) | Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms |
| 1931 | Carl Nielsen d. (b.1865); Sylvano Bussotti b.; Sofia Gubaidulina b.; Mauricio Kagel b. (d.2008) | Walton Belshazzars Feast |
| 1932 | Alexander Goehr b.; Rodion Shchedrin b.; John Williams b.; Per Nrgrd b.; Pauline Oliveros b. (d.2016) | Schoenberg Moses und Aron (first staged 1957) |
| 1933 | Henryk Grecki b. (d.2010); Krzysztof Penderecki b.; Morton Subotnick b. | Strauss Arabella; Dallapiccola Partita |
| 1934 | Edward Elgar d. (b.1857); Gustav Holst d. (b.1874); Harrison Birtwistle b.; Peter Maxwell Davies b. (d.2016); Alfred Schnittke b. (d.1998); Christian Wolff b. | Hindemith Mathis der Maler; Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk |
| 1935 | Alban Berg d. (b.1885); Giya Kancheli b.; Terry Riley b.; Helmut Lachenmann b.; Arvo Prt b.; Kurt Schwertsik b.; La Monte Young b. | Gershwin Porgy and Bess; Messiaen Lascension |
| 1936 | Richard Rodney Bennett b. (d.2012); Cornelius Cardew b. (d.1981); Steve Reich b.; Wang Xilin b. | Berg Violin Concerto; Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf |
| 1937 | Maurice Ravel d. (b.1875); Ivor Gurney d. (b.1890); George Gershwin d. (b.1898); Philip Glass b.; David del Tredici b.; Valentin Silvestrov b. | Webern Variations for Piano; Berg Lulu |
| 1938 | John Corigliano b.; Frederic Rzewski b.; Joan Tower b.; Charles Wuorinen b. | Barber Adagio for Strings; Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks |
| 1939 | Louis Andriessen b.; Jonathan Harvey b. (d.2012); Barbara Kolb b.; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich b. | Bartk Violin Concerto No. 2; Cage Imaginary Landscape No. 1 |
| 1940 | Silvestre Revueltas d. (b.1899); Julius Eastman b. (d.1990); Frank Zappa b. (d.1993) | Britten Les Illuminations; Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez; Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra |
| 1941 | Frank Bridge d. (b.1879); Haflidi Hallgrmsson b. | Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time; Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances |
| 1942 | Meredith Monk b. | Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony No. 7; Strauss Capriccio |
| 1943 | Sergei Rachmaninov d. (b.1873); Brian Ferneyhough b.; HK Gruber b.; Robin Holloway b.; Morten Lauridsen b.; David Matthews b.; Roger Smalley b. (d.2015); Tania Len b. | Krsa Brundibr; Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis |
| 1944 | Ccile Chaminade d. (b.1857); Ethel Smyth d. (b.1858); Amy Beach d. (b.1867); Peter Etvs b.; York Hller b.; Karl Jenkins b.; Michael Nyman b.; John Tavener b. (d.2013) |
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