Ravel's later works include the Le Tombeau de Couperin, a suite formed circa 1917 for the solo piano, and the orchestral pieces Rapsodie Espagnole and Boléro. Perhaps the most famous of his works, Ravel was commissioned by Sergey Diaghilev to create the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, which he completed in 1912.
Primitivism is a form of aesthetic idealization that either copies or aims to recreate "primitive" experience. In Western art, primitivism typically has obtained from non-Western or prehistoric people recognised to be "primitive", such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics.
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert composition by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the initial choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
The phonograph was created in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had designed devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the original to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. His phonograph basically recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder.
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, educator, writer, and painter. He was connected with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and head of the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and advancement, has been one of the most important of 20th-century musical thought.
