Meanings of the „Postromanticism” concept in the context of the Universal and National creation of the first decades of the 20th century

Abstract

The perception of the style characterizing the last decades of the 19th century as late romanticism and its different reception in the context of the parallel existence of the other styles specific to the first decades of the 20th century, provide us with various interpretations of post-romanticism. Based on these considerations, the phenomenon discussed here may be tackled from several perspectives: Late Romanticism, Typical Postromanticism, and Postromanticism – synthetic style. We will attempt, in the research hereunder, to underline the three ways of highlighting the style in connection with representative composers and especially with opuses in different genres of the world and Romanian repertoire signed by Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schonberg, George Enescu.