Neue Musik (English new music, French nouvelle musique) is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is characterised in particular by – sometimes radical – expansions of tonal, harmonic, melodic and rhythmic means and forms. It is characterised by the search for new sounds, new forms or new combinations of old styles, which is partly a continuation of existing traditions, partly a deliberate break with tradition and appears either as progress or as renewal (neo- or post-styles).
Roughly speaking, Neue Musik can be divided into the period from around 1910 to the Second World War – often referred to as "modernism" – and the reorientation after the Second World War, which is perceived as "radical" – usually apostrophised as avant-garde – up to the present. The latter period is sometimes subdivided into the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, whereby the following decades have not yet been further differentiated (the summary term "postmodernism" has not become established).
In order to describe contemporary music in a narrower sense, the term Zeitgenössische Musik (English contemporary music, French musique contemporaine) is used without referring to a fixed periodisation. The term "Neue Musik" was coined by the music journalist Paul Bekker in 1919.
Representatives of Neue Musik are sometimes called neutoners.[1]
^Dorothea Kolland: Die Jugendmusikbewegung. "Gemeinschaftsmusik", Theorie und Praxis. Metzler, Stuttgart 1979, p. 231, Anmerkung 160: "Das Wort ‚Neutöner‘ ist möglicherweise übernommen von Möller van der Bruck (sic!, richtig: Moeller van den Bruck), der 1899 ein Buch mit dem Titel ‚Neutöner‘ veröffentlichte, er bezog diesen Titel jedoch auf Literaten. In der Nachkriegsliteratur charakterisiert er, aus konservativer Sicht abwertend, in Wolfgang Koeppens Roman Der Tod in Rom (1954) den Zwölfton-Komponisten Siegfried Pfaffrath“.
NeueMusik (English new music, French nouvelle musique) is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around...
vice.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-04-30. Uthoff, Jens (2022-06-04). "NeueMusik aus Berlin: Satan war Baby-Boomer". Die Tageszeitung (in German). ISSN 0931-9085...
(eds.). 1997. Im Zenit der Moderne. Die Internationalen Ferienkurse für NeueMusik Darmstadt 1946–1966. Geschichte und Dokumentation. 4 vols. Rombach Wissenschaft:...
Improvisation und neueMusik. Acht Kongressreferate, edited by Reinhold Brinkmann, 108–117. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für NeueMusik und Musikerziehung...
Kammerensemble NeueMusik Berlin, also known as KNM Berlin, is a music ensemble for contemporary music based in Berlin, Germany. The ensemble was founded...
to the Musik-Biennale Berlin and is considered one of the most important festivals for NeueMusik in Germany. The artistic director of MaerzMusik is Kamila...
was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für NeueMusik (IGNM) following the Internationale Kammermusikaufführungen Salzburg,...
Gruppe NeueMusik Hanns Eisler was an ensemble of musicians founded in 1970 in Leipzig with a focus on contemporary classical music, which played several...
There he also directs the Forum NeueMusik, which he founded, as well as the concert series of the Gesellschaft für NeueMusik Mannheim (Society for New Music...
speaking". The piece was first performed, in its original German, at the NeueMusik Berlin festival in June 1930. The performance, in front of an audience...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973): 208. "Musikalischer Impressionismus in Musik | Schülerlexikon | Lernhelfer". www.lernhelfer.de (in German). Retrieved...
immediately after World War II, at the Internationale Ferienkurse für NeueMusik, wherein Schoenberg—who was invited but too ill to travel—was ultimately...
2020). "Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020 abgesagt: Ältestes Festival für NeueMusik muss entfallen" (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. "Programm des Jahres...
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. MGG Online – online version of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart Historical classical recordings from the British...
Global Information