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Movement in Western classical music

Not to be confused with expressionist music, which has different characteristics from this type of music.

This article is about the musical movement and style. For the visual art movement, see Impressionism. For other uses, see Impressionism (disambiguation).

Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture".^[1] "Impressionism" is a philosophical and aesthetic term borrowed from late 19th-century French painting after Monet'sImpression, Sunrise. Composers were labeled Impressionists by analogy to the Impressionist painters who use starkly contrasting colors, effect of light on an object, blurry foreground and background, flattening perspective, etc. to make the observer focus t Maurice ravel biography bolero.