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Nationalist schools
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Nationalist schools · Outside Germany and Italy, composers in the nineteenth century sought a national sound of their own, with folk songs, dance rhythms and stories from their country. In 1862 a free music school was founded in Saint Petersburg, where Mily Balakirev formed The Five with Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Cui. In Vltava (1874), Bedřich Smetana painted the river through Bohemia, and Edvard Grieg wrote music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. Dvořák and Sibelius, among others, followed later.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to how in Vltava undulating lines in the strings depict the flowing water, while a broad melody lets the river sing.
Má vlast: Vltava (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík) · Bedřich Smetana, 1874
Schilderijen van een tentoonstelling: De grote poort van Kiev (Alfred Brendel) · Modest Moessorgski, 1874
Peer Gynt: In de hal van de bergkoning (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund) · Edvard Grieg, 1875
See also
- Frédéric Chopin
- Modest Moessorgski
- Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Mili Balakirev
- Romanticism
- Rhythm as engine: Stravinsky and Bartók
- Bulgarian women's singing
- Americana
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