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-Edward Elgar(1857–1934). Was an English composer. Many of his works are part of the classical British and international concert repertoire.
-Ralph Vaughan Williams(1872–1958). Was a British composer. His works include operas, ballets, secular and religious vocal pieces, and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years.
-Igor Stravinsky(1882-1971). He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and momentous musicians of the 20th century. -
World War One. It is the event that marked the beginning of the 20th century. -
The genocide against the Armenian people, also called the Armenian Holocaust, or Great Crime, was the forced deportation and attempt to exterminate the Armenian culture -
Many composers, struggling to build any further on the music of generations gone by, reacted against established musical trends, creating exciting new forms and styles.
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Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of the United States Apollo Program and the first in history to land a human being on the Moon. The next day three astronauts (Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin) became the first to walk on the lunar surface. . Apollo 11 was propelled by a Saturn V rocket from the LC 39A pad and launched at 13:32 UTC from the Cape Kennedy complex in Florida (USA). The mission was officially known as AS-506. -
The 20th century has been the most intense and convulsive period in history that humanity has had to live through. It began in a time of catastrophes, experienced its golden age after 1945, and ended in an ideological collapse in which profound political events and social transformations took place.