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1. French composers is a new trend in Helsinki musical life.
2. The music of French composers (and Italian composers such as Girolamo Frescobaldi) was written for use during the Mass.

French Critics

1. Many French critics angrily rejected Wagner's music dramas while many French composers closely imitated them with variable success. (Web site)

Greatest French Composers

1. Around 1891 Satie met Claude Debussy, a man who would eclipse him as one of the greatest French composers, and helped sway Debussy toward a fresher style. (Web site)

Group

1. Les Six were a group of six French composers who were friends around the year 1920.

Music Written

1. French composers excelled in music written for solo harpsichord.

Organ Music

1. The influence of French composers on the world of organ music is without question.

Twentieth Century

1. Musical style and influence Gershwin was influenced very much by French composers of the early twentieth century.

Paris

1. Igor Stravinsky worked in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; while more recent French composers include Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez.

French Opera

1. Lully cannot strictly be called the creator of French opera, since other French composers had already written a few operas.

Works

1. He formed a concert society to perform Wagner 's Parsifal, Beethoven 's Missa solemnis, Brahms ' German Requiem, and new works by French composers. (Web site)

Ravel

1. As so many French composers, Ravel received his training at the Paris Conservatory.

Honegger

1. In fact, Satie was the center of the Groupe des Six, a group of six French composers (Auric, Durey, Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Milhaud and Poulenc. (Web site)

Front Rank

1. He was in his day in the front rank of French composers and a friend of Renan and shared his liberal theism.

Mikhail Glinka

1. Nevertheless, his style is more often compared to Robert Schumann and to French composers than to Mikhail Glinka or to Cui's Russian contemporaries. (Web site)

Romantic Era

1. One of the major French composers of the time, and one of the most innovative composers of the early Romantic era, was Hector Berlioz. (Web site)

Centuries

1. Fauré and Duruflé omit the Dies iræ, while the very same text had often been set by French composers in previous centuries as a stand-alone work.

Important

1. Paris, France one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. (Web site)

Les Six

1. He was one of Les Six, a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie. (Web site)
2. During the past half decade musicologists have found renewed interest in writing about the group of French composers called Les Six.
3. He became known as one of Les Six, a group of young French composers. (Web site)

Stravinsky

1. He brought to America not only Stravinsky and the French composers, but such others as Respighi, Vaughan Williams, and Honegger. (Web site)

Older Generation

1. It was written as a competition piece for the Paris Conservatoire, and suggests unexpected connections with an older generation of French composers. (Web site)

Motets

1. French composers of motets included Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck.

Symphonic Poem

1. For this reason, French composers were attracted to the poetic elements of the symphonic poem. (Web site)
2. The symphonic poem came into vogue in France in the 1870s, supported by the newly-founded Société Nationale and its promotion of younger French composers. (Web site)

European Music

1. Debussy was not only among the most important of all French composers but also a central figure in all European music at the turn of the twentieth century. (Web site)

Massenet

1. Massenet was very influential on other French composers in France.
2. Some French composers followed in his footsteps notably Gounod and Massenet.
3. He met many famous French composers such as Berlioz, Lalo and Massenet, and taught composition, for instance to E. Chausson. (Web site)

Satie

1. His music influenced such French composers as Ravel and Satie.
2. Satie had become the inspiring force for the new generation of French composers known as Les Six.
3. Like most French composers of his generation, he fell under the influences of Stravinsky and Satie. (Web site)

Maurice Ravel

1. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, the opera proved to be immensely influential to younger French composers, including Maurice Ravel.
2. At this post he taught many important French composers, including Maurice Ravel and Nadia Boulanger.

Claude Debussy

1. His interest embraced the recent music of French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and he asked for opera vocal scores for Christmas presents.
2. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Ravel, and by jazz. (Web site)
3. French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel composed harp concertos and chamber music widely played today.

French Composers

1. His compositional style bridges the gap between Massenet and Franck and the later generation of French composers such as Claude Debussy. (Web site)
2. When Maurice Ravel visited Oslo in February 1826 he said: " The generation of French composers to which I belong has been strongly attracted to his music.
3. Gounod's influence on the next generation of French composers, including Bizet, Fauré and especially Massenet, was enormous. (Web site)

Categories

1. Music > Composers > French Composers > Claude Debussy
2. Music > Classical Music > Opera > Maurice Ravel
3. Massenet
4. Satie
5. European Music

Subcategories

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Adolphe Adam Charles-Valentin Alkan Charles Gounod Charles Tournemire

Claude Debussy Claude Goudimel Darius Milhaud Florent Schmitt

Georges Bizet Germaine Tailleferre Hector Berlioz Jean Langlais

Jules Massenet Luc Ferrari Michel Colombier Paul Dukas

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