Name: BBC Howard Goodalls Story of Music. Part 5 of 6: The Age of Rebellion
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Music, one of the most dazzling fruits of human civilisation,

It's reflected the times in which it was written,

it has delighted, challenged, comforted and excited us.

In this series I've been tracing the story of music from scratch.

misleading jargon and fancy labels are best put to one side.

Instead, try to imagine how revolutionary and how exhilarating

many of the innovations we take for granted today were

There are a million ways of telling the story of music, this is mine.

MUSIC: "The Rite Of Spring" by Stravinsky

In the 31 years between the death of Richard Wagner in 1883

music was shaken by a series of rebellions.

"Pictures At An Exhibition" by Mussorgsky

Russian music swept westwards exuberantly,

as did the exotic sounds of distant continents.

And symphonies and operas of astonishing intensity

with millions of poor European immigrants seeking refuge

to join the white settlers, African Americans and Chinese workers already there.

soon to be heard on newfangled record players and radios,

would spring the blues, ragtime and jazz.

In just over three decades music underwent a series of gigantic convulsions.

Change came in many different forms, some exciting, some bewildering.

and all of music's laws and traditions were about to be shaken to their roots.

What happened was a series of musical rebellions.

The first was aimed at displacing the musical giant of the late 19th century, Richard Wagner.

His ideas, his style and his musical philosophy

had been such a pervasive presence in classical music

that what might have followed him was a plague of pseudo-Wagners.

In fact what followed in his wake was an explosion of musical activity

that sought to do things very differently indeed.

but there was a kind of not-Wagner renaissance.

All the things he hated most came to life. The French, for a start.

MUSIC: "Carnival Of The Animals" by Saint-Saens

In France a new wave of composers made it their business

to write music of deliberate simplicity and clarity

and to banish pretention and earnestness of all kinds.

The French were about to enjoy a musical golden age

Their best 50 years ever in music blossomed

after he went off to his personal Valhalla,

with Faure, Debussy and Ravel leading a glorious riposte

The movement was set in train by one of the most remarkable figures in music, Erik Satie.

as well as sounding like a long, hot afternoon after a boozy lunch,

to debunk pomposity and declutter French music.

Satie, described by his tutors at the Paris conservatoire

as "the laziest student ever", was an eccentric intellectual

who hung out with other arty dreamers in Montmartre.

Satie's music could hardly sound less like Wagner

The irony is that there was a German influence

on the work of Satie's Parisian contemporaries.

Here's a clue. Composers like Cesar Franck, Charles-Marie Widor,

Camille Saint-Saens and Gabriel Faure were all trained organists,

knowing one particular composer's work inside out - JS Bach.

More than a hundred years after his death,

were invigorated and inspired by Bach's clarity and economy.

Even the master himself might have admired

to many a newly hitched bride and groom ever since.

The dignity and dexterity of Bach can also be heard

perhaps the most talented of these French organist-composers.

Listening to Faure after Brahms, Liszt, Wagner or Tchaikovsky,

it's as if someone has spring-cleaned and redecorated

Gone are the posters of death, psychological torment,

The augmented piles of clothes have been put away

to dispel the diminished sneaker-smelling air.

Faure's exquisite music simply says, "Chill,"

The exquisite pieces of Satie, Saint-Saens, Faure

and the new wave of French composers were mostly small in scale.

The next important step in the non-Wagner rebellion took place

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BBC Howard Goodalls Story of Music. Part 5 of 6: The Age of Rebellion

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