1905 Music!

One hundred years ago, competitions in ragtime, which awards reached unimaginable sums of twenty-five thousand dollars were held in the United States.

If it is true that most people now listen dance, pop, rap, techno, House, hip hop and folk music, and then perhaps there are those who asked themselves what was happening in all concert stages before of exactly 100.... and five years.

It is clear that the so-called classical or serious music, is copy with most of the data at the beginning of the last century, but that doesn't mean that it was and the most popular... in fact, the pianist Arthur Rubinstein was greeted with ovations wherever held a concert...However, he was heard only by hearing "selected".

Franz Lehar

However, even among the composers of classical music there who looked real éxitos.Uno them was Ferenc, known as Franz Lehar (1870-1948), composer of Hungarian origin. This military Orchestra director was thirty-five years of age, when, in the Austrian in late 1905 capital, for the first time organized his operetta "The Merry Widow" (Die lustige Witwe).Success was great, and it seems the popularity of "Merry Widow" is not even over a hundred years may be.

Almost at the same time, his compatriot of Lehar, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911, wrote the Seventh Symphony and the German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) musical drama, "Salome", drawing inspiration from the text of the same name of Oscar Wilde.)

Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) was 26 years old in 1905.Finished his studies of viola and composition was first violin in the Orchestra of the Imperial Theater in St. Petersburg and also acted in concert, playing the same year, violín.Ese wrote a comic opera "King Enzo" (Re Enzo), very popular at that time, night for the suite in g major for String Orchestra and organ and Orchestra.

The famous Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was young then.It was only 24 years old and just wrote the first and second suite for orquesta.Un year younger then was Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971).According to the wish of her parents, in1905 finished school of law in St Petersburg, but every day, visited the Rimsky-Korsakov composer, his teacher of composition personal.hace hundred and five years Stravinsky wrote his first Symphony in d minor.

French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) published his first book of compositions for piano "Images" (images pour piano) and Pietro Mascagni - his opera "Amica.".

On the other side of the Atlantic, America was hit with joyful music piano - fever ragtime.Dominando clearly American popular music at that time, ragtime was associated with the game, which was named Cakewalk.El father Ragtime was a poor pianist Scott Joplin (1868-1917).

Five hundred years ago, in the United States, were held competitions in ragtime, which awards reached unimaginable amount of twenty-five thousand dollars. they were opening up schools of ragtime, and published many manuals Ragtime.

This wave of music came to Europe and the above-mentioned composers began to insert ragtime themes in his work...