The period of 1880-1920 is littered with forgotten composers who did not respond to the clarion call of incipient modernism, a trend many in hindsight view as historically inevitable. However, if one could travel back to 1910, one would learn that very idea the decade 1900-1910 would be best remembered by works such as Debussy's La Mer, Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy, Richard Strauss' Salome, and Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de feu would have been viewed as tantamount to the lunatics taking over the asylum. Back then, all of these ...
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The period of 1880-1920 is littered with forgotten composers who did not respond to the clarion call of incipient modernism, a trend many in hindsight view as historically inevitable. However, if one could travel back to 1910, one would learn that very idea the decade 1900-1910 would be best remembered by works such as Debussy's La Mer, Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy, Richard Strauss' Salome, and Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de feu would have been viewed as tantamount to the lunatics taking over the asylum. Back then, all of these works represented a controversial extreme in the music of that day. Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz more represents the norm of that time, a composer whose work reflects the influence of early Strauss, above all others, but utilizes an orchestral palette that is reminiscent of what Erich Wolfgang Korngold would produce in maturity. Karlowicz would never enjoy maturity himself, as he died in a skiing accident at the age of 32 that some speculate may have been a deliberate...
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