What is neoclassical music?

Neoclassical music or new classical music is a style of music that drew its inspiration from traditional elements of classical music, including emotional limitation, balance, order and clarity. The music was popular between the First World War and the Second World War, and was a refuted much less formally and emotional music of the romantic period. Neoclassical music written by composers in the first half of the 20th century focused on restoring the connection to the musical tradition after a wave of musical experiments at the beginning of the 20th century. The composers did not want to ignore the development of music after the classical period, but wanted to re -introduce a clear form, a tonal center and a melodic element. They added more modern chromatic elements to the classic structure, the use of mismatch and a diverse rhythm that was developed from the classical period.

One of the First Works that can be described as neoclassical music was Symphony No. 1 in D Major , Sergei ProkofiEV, which the composer called a classic symphony . This work, written in 1917, was in four movements in the style of Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony, although the composer used modern techniques in classic form and the symphony reflects his own composers voice. In the 1920s, Igor Stravinsky composed some works that looked back at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Johann Sebastian Bach. These works used much smaller music ensembles than the large orchestras that previously used and incorporated wind instruments, piano and chamber orchestras. Remarkable work from his neoclassical period is the concert dumbarton Oaks Concert and psalm symphony .

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Stravinsky view was that the ability of the composer to express his musical personality was not limited by the acceptance of the classical form, but the tsaling of hats in the established order could allow greater expression of musical ideas. Not all composers of neoclassical music had similar goals and composers withVery diverse styles were considered part of the neoclassical movement. German composer Paul Hindemith wrote a work in the 1920s, which used a counterpoint in a complex way, because of the debt of Bach, and this music was also referred to as neoclassical.

Music, which remembers the period of guard and its contemporaries, is also often referred to as neo-baroque. Dmitri shostakovitch wrote a set of Preluds and Fugu for piano, partially inspired by his admiration for Bach, and this work could be referred to as neoclassical music, even though it is written in the idiom of its own musical work Shostakovich. Shostakovitch also wrote pieces in traditional musical forms as a result of his problems with the political authorities of his time, who expressed the opinion that part of his music was out of touching the wširší population.