Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

In addition, musicians was given a lot more appreciation and they did tours around Europe, such as the
pianists Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the violinist Niccolò Paganini (1782-
1840), and female singers as Jenny Lind (1820-1887).
1841 the saxophone was invented by A Sax.
Approximately 1900 the drum kit was introduced in orchestral music.
Well into the 1900s the classical music dominated what was offered to the public. A typical day in 1932
(According to Dagens Nyheter 1932-07-05), for example, the non-classical music on the radio consisted of a
vocal duet with Signe and Daniel Hertzman, a Russian folk song, a tango, a polka, a foxtrot and a song
accompanied of banjo and piano. In addition classical music was played for another hour in the day (see the
chapter on radio).
The modern music evolved from the black folk songs of the Southern United States during the late 1800's.
The first variant is called the blues and its commercial breakthrough came in 1920, when Mamie Smith
became popular with the song Crazy Blues. Blues popularized the instrument cluster: guitar, piano, bass,
drums and harmonica.
In parallel with the blues developed a special way of playing with improvisations that became known as
Dixieland jazz and the harmonica was replaced by trumpet, saxophone and others. 1919 begins the spread in
Europe and it had a breakthrough during the 20 - and 30-century. Thereafter came what was called the
swing, but from the 1950's and onwards it has been marginalizated of rock 'n' roll and its successors. Among
countless more or less famous orchestra conductors or instrumentalists in jazz are Duke Ellington (1899-
1974), Glenn Miller (1904-1944), Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) and Benny Goodman (1909-1986).
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