At the same lime as the compositional models resulting from romanticism were being challenged, an undermining of bourgeois art began at the end of the First World War with the foundation of the November Group on December 3, 1918. Linked by its name to the revolutionary movements that\u00a0 followed the armistice, the group was initially made up exclusively of visual artists – Max Pechstein, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Walter Gropius and many others – \u00a0who wanted to “radically” renew the art, and defined itself in the catalog of its first exhibition with these words: “The November Group is a union of radical artists, radical in their rejection of traditional forms of expression, radical in their application of new means of expression “.<\/p>\n
From 1919 onwards, it presented its works in independent exhibitions in Berlin. The divergences that\u00a0 appeared\u00a0 within\u00a0 it\u00a0 starting\u00a0 in\u00a0 1921 are\u00a0 representative\u00a0 of the bipolarization that ran through the artistic movements\u00a0 throughout the Weimar\u00a0 Republic:\u00a0 while\u00a0 some\u00a0 found\u00a0 that\u00a0 the bourgeois\u00a0 republic\u00a0 gave\u00a0 creators the tools necessary to implement their ideas, a minority of artists considered that the revolution in art should go hand in hand with the social revolution. When the November Group opened up to musicians in January 1922, the same divide was to be found between\u00a0 the\u00a0 composers who joined: Heinz Tiessen, Philip Jamach, Jascha Horenstein, Stefan Wolpe, Kurt Weill, Max Butting and others, students of Busoni and Schoenberg, then in 1925 Hanns\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eisler and George Antheil. Multidisciplinary, the November Group, which disappeared in 1932, developed a protean activity with one objective: to use art to influence society. lt thus tackled all disciplines in a proliferation consistent with that of the time, in which an art in full explosion was to figure prominently : cinema.<\/p>\n
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Maria Ostroukhova, mezzo
\nOrchestre Les M\u00e9tamorphoses
\nAmaury Du Closel, conductor<\/p>\n
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