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During the nineteen twenties, the world was in the midst of change. The world has just recovered from the first Great War, and jazz music was entering its state of childhood. As technology evolved, so did the music of the times. People were searching for a new style of music. What they got was something extremely radical and revolutionary. What spawned out of the romantic period was an era of groundbreaking ideas. The boundaries of what people perceived as music were stretched and pushed to its limits.
People began to create new forms of music. They stretched the style of traditional classical music and turned it on its head. One such composer, who dared to make his mark in this avant-garde style of music, was George Antheil.
George Antheil(1900-1959), was an American composer. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was the son of Polish immigrants. He first established a career as a concert pianist, mostly in Europe, but shortly thereafter also attracted notice for his......

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