January 18, 2013

The Rest Is Noise festival: 1900-1910

From Elgar to Nijinsky, we look at some of the people and events that helped shape the opening years of the cultural life of the 20th century

Rest is Noise: The English composer Sir Edward Elgar circa 1900 — English composer Sir Edward Elgar, circa 1900 Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: Aubrey Beardsley's illustration of The Toilette of Salome — Aubrey Beardsley's illustration of The Toilette of Salome for the first edition of the play Salome by Oscar Wilde, 1892 Photograph: Alamy

Rest is Noise: The composer Richard Strauss in London, 1914 — The composer Richard Strauss in London, 1914 Photograph: Getty Images

Rest is Noise: A poster for the Paris production of Richard Strauss's Salome — A poster by Max Tilke for the 1910 Paris production of Richard Strauss's opera Salomé Photograph: De Agostini/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: Nijinsky with Lydia Nelidova — Vaslav Nijinsky as the faun with Lydia Nelidova, posing for the 1912 Ballets Russes premiere of Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, at Le Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris Photograph: Edward Gooch/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: The American poet and composer Ezra Pound, circa 1910 — American poet and composer Ezra Pound, circa 1910 Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein achieved world reknown in 1905, at age 26, when he expounded his Special Theory of Relativity which proposed the existence of atomic energy. He was rewarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS

Rest is Noise: Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floege — Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floege in the garden of the Oleander villa in Kammer at the Attersee Lake, 1910 Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: The Kiss by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, 1907-1908 — The Kiss by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, 1907-1908 Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: Poster for Schiele's exhibition in the Arnot Gallery — Poster for Schiele's exhibition in the Arnot Gallery, Vienna, January 1915 Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: Lenin in Red Square circa 1917 — Lenin in Red Square circa 1917 Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: A caricature from Die Zeit — A caricature from Die Zeit, 6 April 1913, with the title 'The Upcoming Schoenberg Concert' Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: The house of Dr. Gustav and Helene Scheuch — The house of Dr. Gustav and Helene Scheuch in Vienna by the architect Adolf Loos, 1912-1913 Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

Rest is Noise: British troops go over the top in the trenches — British troops go over the top in the trenches during the battle of the Somme, 1916 Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

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