Impressionism in music

Interesting facts about impressionism

• Impressionism comes from the field of painting, where it also shaped an epoch. Impressionism represents the opposite pole to late romanticism in music.
• In the era of impressionism, music was designed much more freely. The tones play an important role, especially in their interplay, parallel to one another instead of individually. The rhythms are also designed more freely. Harmonic chords are rarely used.
• Individual instruments are particularly emphasized in this era, which is achieved by the fact that they play extremely softly or loudly. In addition, the musical motifs play a major role in most of the works.
• Impressionism, which took place from roughly 1890 to 1920, is for its dissonances and Whole-tone scales are particularly well-known, with which the epoch with the previously important regularities in the Music breaks.

Artist of the music era

• While Claude Monet is always associated with Impressionism in painting, Claude Debussy is considered to be the founder in music. Besides him, Franz Liszt and Maurice Ravel are regarded as important composers of the era.


Romanticism in music - interesting facts about the era

Romanticism is an extremely interesting era in music, in which ...

• In his well-known work "Cathédrale engloutie", Claude Debussy combines particularly wide ranges on the piano. Maurice Ravel, on the other hand, is best known for his "Bolero", which scores with an enormous variety of sounds in the orchestra. He succeeded in mixing the different sounds of the instruments with this work in a particularly sophisticated way.
• To this day, these musical works have become indispensable and their style is still relevant.