Early 20th Century Composer Poll

[vandermolen]

Great Bax fan here - all the symphonies, Tintagel, Northern Ballad No 1, Symphonic Variations etc but also less well known works like the hauntingly atmospheric Christmas Eve in the Mountains, Festival Overture, Nympholept (these last three are all available on a budget Chandos CD in excellent performances conducted by Bryden Thomson (Bax Orchestral Works Vol. 5).

At the moment I am enjoying the music of Lyapunov and Miaskovsky is another choice of mine.

[stlukesguild]

Yes... there are many missing figures of great merit: Puccini, Zemlinsky, Szymanowsky, Vaughan-Williams, Bax, etc... Another missing figure is Delius. I'm not only quite enamored with his orchestral suites/tone poems: Florida Suite, North Country Sketches, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, but also his marvelous opera, A Village Romeo and Juliette and his Sea Drift and the Orchestral Songs of Farewell and Songs of Summer. My personal choices for the best of the early 20th century would be Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Dimitri Shostakovitch... although catch me at another time and I'd replace Shosty with Bartok, Stravinsky, Debussy, or Ravel.

[San Antone]

I moved this post from the 1950-1999 thread:

Usually treated as a footnote to Arnold Schoenberg and the development of twelve-tone music, Josef Hauer's music has been by and large neglected.  His music is subdued and one can understand why the neglect, still it is worthwhile to hear music created using a completely different method of the same idea.

Nachklangstudien op.16 (1919)

https://www.youtube.com/v/aHXM5VIS27k&index=5&list=PL8F9AF9800A41C8D1

I found a blogger who's written about his system, as distinct from Schoenberg's.  Interesting composer.