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Genres Composed: Austro-Bohemian Romantic, Classical, Symphonic, Lieder. Musical Style: Maximalism.
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Genres Composed: Orchestra, Symphonic Poetry, Operatic, Ballet, Piano, Chamber Music, and Choral Music.
Musical Style: Impressionistic; pieces with poetic titles suggesting a topic.
The most important French composer of the early 20th century. credited with composing the first modern orchestral work. -
Genres Composed: Tone Poetry, Operatic, Symphonic Poetry, and Orchestra. Musical Styles: Maximalism- Used a lot of chromaticism, and big sizes of performance groups. He also used themes, motives, and thick textures.
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Genres Composed: Brahmsian genres: Lieder, Chamber Music, and Piano.
Musical Styles: Expressionism, went atonal ca. 1907-1909.
*Created “melodies” in atonality – called “tone rows". * -
Genres Composed: Piano, Chamber Music, Operatic, and Ballet.
Musical Style: Impressionism
Credited with writing the first Impressionist piano piece. -
Genres Composed: Ballet, Orchestra, Classical, Piano, Jazz.
Musical Style: A variety of styles such as; “Russian Period” (up to circa 1920); “French Period” (around 1910, living in Paris); “Neoclassical Period” (circa 1920-54); “Serialist [US] Period” (circa 1954-68). He also composed Operatic and Jazz pieces. Rhythmically complex and had essentially tonal pieces, but with sharp dissonance. -
Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier.
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October 1, 1890: At the urging of John Muir, The U.S. Congress designated Yosemite a National Park.
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Rudolf Diesel invented an efficient, compression ignition, an internal combustion engine known as the 'Diesel Engine'.
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Lumiere Brothers invent the portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit, and projector called the Cinematograph.
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Apr 21, 1898 – Dec 10, 1898; The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World. The United States emerged from the war as a world power with significant territorial claims stretching from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.
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Nathaniel Baldwin's constructed, but potent, headphones.
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Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
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In 1928 German Austrian engineer; Fritz Pfleumer; patented the world's first magnetic recording tape.