Hanging By A Crotchet - 24: Modernism Elsewhere

Last week we investigated how in the general malaise of the late nineteenth century, composers began to push the boundaries of music and forgo conventions hitherto understood as standard - in a movement that would become to be understood as modernism. In the last episode we particularly examined this as was seen in the Austro-German musical tradition, from the 1890s until WW1.

Join us this week to see how these ideas manifested themselves elsewhere in Europe and how composers dealt with the aftermath of the ‘war to end all wars’ which changed the entire social and political landscape of Europe, and began to force the continent we know today.