Early Avant Garde

Early avant-garde music, flourishing primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, represents a radical departure from traditional music composition and performance. It's characterized by an experimental approach that emphasizes novelty, a break from convention, and often includes atonality, dissonance, and unconventional sounds. Artists like Erik Satie and Luigi Russolo pushed boundaries by exploring unorthodox harmonies and inventing new instruments, respectively. This genre is aligned with the broader artistic avant-garde movement, which included poets like Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, who promoted similarly unconventional expressions in their art. The early avant-garde's daring redefinition of what music could be was profoundly influential and paved the way for subsequent avant-garde and experimental music movements.

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Antonio Russolo
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Erik Satie
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Francesco Balilla Pratella
Franco Casavola
Guillaume Apollinaire
Gérard De Nerval
Jean Cocteau
Louis Aragon
Luigi Russolo
Marcel Duchamp
Paul Éluard
Robert Desnos
Salvador Dalí
Tristan Tzara
Erik Satie
Marcel Duchamp
Luigi Russolo
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Antonio Russolo
Louis Aragon
Jean Cocteau
Paul Éluard
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Guillaume Apollinaire
Francesco Balilla Pratella
Tristan Tzara
Robert Desnos
Salvador Dalí
Gérard De Nerval
Franco Casavola