Timeline 5: Post Romantic 1890-1930

Puccini

Period: 1858 to 1924

Mahler

Period: 1860 to 1911

Wolf

Period: 1860 to 1903

Debussy

Period: 1862 to 1918

Delius

Period: 1862 to 1934

Strauss

Period: 1864 to 1949

Sibelius

Period: 1865 to 1957

Busoni

Period: 1866 to 1924

Beach

Period: 1867 to 1944

Granados

Period: 1867 to 1916

Joplin

Period: 1867 to 1917

His true birthdate is unknown

Pfitzner

Period: 1869 to 1949

Williams

Period: 1872 to 1958

Skyrabin

Period: 1872 to 1915

Reger

Period: 1873 to 1916

Rachmaninoff

Period: 1873 to 1943

Holst

Period: 1874 to 1934

Falla

Period: 1876 to 1946

Respighi

Period: 1879 to 1936

Bartok

Period: 1881 to 1945

Symanowski

Period: 1882 to 1937

Stylistic Traits

Period: 1890 to 1930

many storytelling features
dissonance, tension, nonfunctional and tertian harmonies, and tertian harmonies, loss of tonality
cadences are frequently unresolved or blurred
polyphony
religious/mythical, feeling on the piece is extremely exaggerated
large scope of types of music composed
(operas, orchestral, tone poems)

Jazz invented

Period: 1890 to 1910

Maximalism

Period: 1890 to 1914

Main composers:
Strauss
Mahler
Prokofiev

Impressionism

Period: 1890 to 1920

Main composers:
Debussy
Delius
Respighi
Ravel

First motion pictures are made

1893

Spanish American War

1898

Expressionism

Period: 1910 to 1930

Main composers:
Schoenberg
Berg
Webern

World War 1

Period: 1914 to 1918

Women gain the right to vote

1920

Jukebox invented

1927