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'Neo-Baroque' is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper, around the 17th-18th centuries. It is most frequently used to refer to music or architecture, but can also concern painting or the decorative arts.

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Neo-Baroque architecture

Neo-baroque music

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Neo-Baroque architecture

Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:

★ The Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan

★ The Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia

★ The Ashton Memorial in Lancaster, England

★ The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia

★ The Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany

★ The Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark

★ The Cluj-Napoca National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

★ The Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey

★ The Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) in Paris, France

★ The Semper Oper in Dresden, Germany

★ The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary

★ The former royal palace, today the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria
There are also number of post-modern buildings in a style that might be called "Baroque" – for example The Dancing House in Prague by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque""'' The Dancing Building, which Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic have described as "new Baroque", has divided opinion [...] ''", in "Architect recalls genesis of Dancing Building as coffee table book published", by Ian Willoughby, 11-07-2003, online at The international service of Czech Radio.

Neo-baroque music

Some examples of composers living after the Baroque period who use or have used Baroque idioms or forms (such as extensive contrapuntal passages or fugues) in their works:

★ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German

★ Hendrik Bouman (1951–), Dutch

★ Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), German

★ Elodie Lauten (1950–), French born, later a U.S. citizen

★ Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), Polish

★ Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), German

★ Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), German

★ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian

★ Giorgio Pacchioni (1947–), Italian

★ Max Reger (1873–1916), German

★ Peter Schickele (1935–), U.S., under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach (1807-1742), by way of parody

★ Hugo Distler German

★ Johanna Senfter (1879-1961), German

★ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Russian

★ Michael Starke (composer) (1955–), U.S.

★ Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Russian

See also

★ Contemporary Baroque Art

References

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