Timeline: Timeline Five: Post-Romanticism | Timetoast

Period: 1858 to 1924

Puccini
Period: 1860 to 1903

Wolf
Period: 1860 to 1911

Mahler
Period: 1862 to 1918

Debussy
Period: 1862 to 1934

Delius
Period: 1864 to 1949

Strauss
Period: 1865 to 1957

Sibelius
Period: 1866 to 1924

Busoni
Period: 1867 to 1944

Beach
Period: 1867 to 1916

Granados
Period: 1867 to 1917

Joplin

Joplin may have been born in 1968, but historians don't really know.
Period: 1869 to 1949

Pfitzner
Period: 1872 to 1915

Skryabin
Period: 1872 to 1958

Williams
Period: 1873 to 1916

Reger
Period: 1873 to 1943

Rachmaninoff
Period: 1874 to 1934

Holst
Period: 1876 to 1946

Falla
Period: 1879 to 1936

Respighi
Period: 1881 to 1945

Bartok
Period: 1882 to 1937

Szymanowski
Period: 1890 to 1914

Maximalism

Primary Composers of this period were Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Sergei Prokofiev
Period: 1890 to 1920

Impressionism

Primary composers of this period Debussy, Delius, Respighi, Ravel
Period: 1890 to 1930

Stylistic Traits

many storytelling features
dissonance, tension, nonfunctional tertian harmonies and 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)
1897

Alaskan Gold Rush Begins
Period: 1904 to 1914

Construction of the Panama Canal
Period: 1910 to 1930

Expressionism

Primary Composers of this period were Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
Apr 15, 1912

Sinking of the Titanic
1925

Victrola Phonograph Invented
1927

Jukebox invented
1929

Stock Market Crash