Impressionist music is the last unique style in19th century. It reflects the initial signs of changes in a new era and is the beginning of many important features and mental states of music in the new era. Vague outlines, hazy colors and indistinguishable tone changes are all obvious signs of impressionist music. The most typical representative of impressionist music is French composer Debussy.
Impressionism is a word borrowed from art. 1874, a painting by Monet named Impression of Sunrise was exhibited at the Loser Salon in Paris, which caused ridicule and discussion. Since then, Degas, pissarro, Sisley, Renoir and other painters with similar artistic ideals and expressions have been called "Impressionists".
They oppose the conservative thoughts of the academic school, love nature and face modern life. They use the method of directly depicting scenery in outdoor sunlight to express the overall sense of objects and surrounding atmosphere in the change of light and color, which has a great influence on the development of painting.
The word impressionism first appeared in the music of 1887. The judges of the French Academy of Fine Arts accused Debussy of the unclear structure of the second symphony suite "Spring" when he was studying in Rome, and asked him to "be wary of vague impressionism".
When his string quartet premiered in Brussels in 1894, critics began to praise it with impressionism. After 1905, this word is often used to summarize Debussy's music with similar styles, and it is no longer derogatory.
Impressionist music, as a new artistic style, inspired the creation of a large number of composers in the early 20th century. However, its theme and content are only descriptions of natural scenery, lacking profound ideological and social significance, so it only prevailed in the early 20th century and was soon replaced by new music styles and schools.
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Impressionist music is one of the bridges between romantic music and modern music. Although this music genre is mainly concentrated in France at the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century, this style has played an inestimable role in the development of modern music.
Later, several music schools in the 20th century, such as expressionism, twelve-tone system and sequential music, were all influenced by impressionist music to some extent.