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Classical Composer Profiles

These document summaries three influential 20th century composers: Claude Debussy was a French composer known for compositions like "La mer" and "Clair de lune". He helped pioneer musical Impressionism. Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer who led the Second Viennese School and developed twelve-tone technique. Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer known for influential works like "The Rite of Spring" and "Petrushka" who later took French and American citizenship.

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Classical Composer Profiles

These document summaries three influential 20th century composers: Claude Debussy was a French composer known for compositions like "La mer" and "Clair de lune". He helped pioneer musical Impressionism. Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer who led the Second Viennese School and developed twelve-tone technique. Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer known for influential works like "The Rite of Spring" and "Petrushka" who later took French and American citizenship.

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These are some of his Compositions

La mer
Rêverie
Clair de lune
Suite bergamasque
Children's Corner
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Petite Suite
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Nocturnes
L'isle joyeuse

Claude Debussy was a French


composer. He is sometimes seen as the
first Impressionist composer, although
he vigorously rejected the term. He
was among the most influential
composers of the late 19th and early
20th centuries. Wikipedia
Born: August 22, 1862, Saint-Germain-
en-Laye, France
Died: March 25, 1918, 16th
arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France
Influenced by: Frédéric Chopin, Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, MORE
Nationality: French
Parents: Victorine Manoury Debussy,
Manuel-Achille Debussy
These are some of his Compositions These are some of his Compositions
Boléro Pierrot lunaire
Piano Concerto in G Verklä rte Nacht
Bolero A Survivor from Warsaw
Pavane pour une infante défunte Gurre-Lieder
Sonatine Erwartung
Daphnis et Chloé
La valse Arnold Schoenberg or Schö nberg was
an Austrian-American composer,
music theorist, teacher, writer, and
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French painter. He is widely considered one of
composer, pianist and conductor. He is the most influential composers of the
often associated with Impressionism 20th century. He was associated with
along with his elder contemporary the expressionist movement in
Claude Debussy, although both German poetry and art, and leader of
composers rejected the term. In the the Second Viennese School. Wikipedia
1920s and 1930s Ravel was
Born: September 13, 1874,
internationally regarded as France's
Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria
greatest living composer. Wikipedia
Died: July 13, 1951, Los Angeles,
Born: March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France
California, United States
Died: December 28, 1937, 16th
Children: Ronald Schoenberg, Gertrud
arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France
Greissle, MORE
Influenced by: Claude Debussy, Gabriel
Place of burial: Central Cemetery,
Fauré, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles-
Vienna, Austria
Valentin Alkan
Parents: Pauline Schoenberg, Samuel
Height: 1.61 m
Schoenberg
Nationality: French
Spouse: Gertrud Schoenberg (m.
Genres: Impressionism in music, 1924–1951), Mathilde Zemlinsky (m.
Fantasia, Classical music, Opera 1901–1923)
Period: Der Blaue Reiter
These are some of his Compositions
The Rite of Spring
The Firebird
Petrushka
Pulcinella
The Rake's Progress
L'Histoire du soldat
Symphony of Psalms
The Firebird Suite
Oedipus rex

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ComSE


was a Russian composer, pianist and
conductor, later of French and
American citizenship. He is widely
considered one of the most important
and influential composers of the 20th
century and a pivotal figure in
modernist music. Wikipedia
Born: June 17, 1882, Lomonosov, Saint
Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 6, 1971, JW Marriott Essex
House
Spouse: Vera de Bosset (m. 1940–
1971), Yekaterina Gabrielovna
Nossenko (m. 1906–1939)
Siblings: Yury Stravinsky
Children: Soulima Stravinsky, Ludmila
Mandelstam, Maria Milena Stravinsky,
Fyodor Stravinsky
Nationality: American, French, Russian

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