ABSTRACT
In interwar period, socio-political, economic, and aesthetic factors had a significant bearing on the course of musical trends. With the worldwide economic depression and the rise of fascism in the early 1930s, restrictions were placed on the more experimental tendencies that had been developing in the arts since the first decades of the century. Composers of various countries turned increasingly toward more accessible musical idioms, partly because of the censureship of avant-garde music in totalitarian states, and partly because of the desire composers had to reach their musical public, whose cultural activities had been limited by the devastating international economic conditions.
