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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1906 was the year that 2,500 people died in the great San Francisco earthquake; Mohandas K. Gandhi began a nonviolent campaign to protest the treatment of Indians in South Africa; Maria Montessori opened the first daycare center; and a German neurologist named Alois Alzheimer first identified a severe disorder of the brain.


Significant Book of 1906:
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

BOOK Sinclair's powerful muckraking novel exposed corrupt conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry and even prompted a governmental investigation. It is still regarded as one of the most important works in the literature of social change.

  Significant Music of 1906:
 Arnold Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony

BOOK Arnold Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony premiered in Vienna. Written for 15 instruments and set in one compact movement, it bridges the lush excesses of 19th-century romanticism with the lean, sharp edge of modernism.




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