Impressionism Flashcards
Impressionists
Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas.
group exhibition of impressionist works in Paris in _____.
1874
National Music Society
Société Nationale de Musique
25 February 1871
Camille Saint-Saens and Romain Bussine
______ - president
Bussine
_______ - vice-president
Ernest Reyer
_______ - secretary
Alexis Castillon
______ - assistant secretary.
Jules Garcin
Founding member - ______
Théodore Dubois,
Henri Duparc,
Gabriel Fauré,
César Franck,
Ernest Guiraud,
Jules Massenet, and
Paul Taffanel.
Claude-Achille Debussy ()
1862-1918
Debussy birthday
August 22, 1862
Debussy birthday
August 22, 1862
Debussy death
March 25, 1918
Outstanding Impressionist composer
Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918)
Paris Universal Exposition - held in __.
1899
Russian music in concerts conducted by the Russian composer __________.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Claude Debussy introduced the following:
Whole tone chords
Parallel and Bitonal chords
Chromaticism
Dissonances
Claude Debussy Compositions
Clair de Lune
“L’Enfant Prodigue.”
La Mer
________ (moonlight)
Clair de Lune
“________.” - Grand Prix de Rome in ____.
L’Enfant Prodigue
1884
La Mer or, in English, ____.
The Sea
La Mer published in ___
1905
become part of standard concert repertoire.
LA Mer
French post-impressionist composer, conductor and pianist
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ravel bday
March 7, 1875
Village near
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.
Ravel death
December 28, 1937
Ravel entered the Paris Conservatory
1889-1905
director of the conservatory
Théodore Dubois
Jeux d’eau
1901
roughly translated as the Play of Water
Jeux d’eau
one-movement orchestral work
Bolero
_______ once even likened the French composer to a “Swiss watchmaker”
Igor Stravinsky
