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@DaveSmey The development of serial music is not based on "fancy chords". This would make the whole issue a matter of taste. But when Schoenberg and his pupils left tonality behind, they were in the danger to become "musical outlaws". They felt the necessity of a "new order" to make composing in ...

Throws a great light on the intensity and deepness of Bach's music. It would be hard to work this out on a harpsichord. And it throws a great light also on Webern's personal connection to the era of (Baroque) polyphonic music. I believe he felt himself in a straight line with composers like Bach....

There is something in the music of Arvo Pärt that you could never put in notes ... It is the expression of his devoutness and faith ... This music is meant to be heard not only by the visible audience, but also by a special, invisible being ... God ... I think that is what makes his music so spe...

Was für ein gewaltiges Stück. Sozusagen der Kampf zwischen Tradition und Moderne, tonaler Ordnung und atonalem Chaos. Pärt fährt im Mittelteil des Stückes (das übrigens in den Außenteilen auf Bachs berühmten C-Dur-Präludium aufbaut) alles ab, was in der zeitgenössischen Musik in den 60ern opportu...

@padredemishijos12 This is a very weak and also a bad argument: "You have no right to be a critic because he is a talent and an established musician, and you are not". To call this "garbage" is another thing, but criticism should not be forbidden or belittled just because someone does not like it...

Ich mag in dem Punkt sehr altmodisch sein - aber wenn man (wie hier) dem Hörer nichts bietet, was auch nur ansatzweise seinen Hörgewohnheiten entspricht (seien es formale Dinge, Rhythmik oder Melodik), komponiert man für meine Begriffe am Hörer vorbei. Form und Struktur, die der Mensch (und nich...

Das Dilemma des Bruches mit der Tradition hatten bereits die Komponisten Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts durchgemacht, als Speerspitze war dies sicherlich die sog. Neue Wiener Schule. Deren Lösung (die ich sehr schätze), nämlich die teilweise Rückbesinnung auf die Tradition vorangegangener Epochen, k...

@Cancrizans Sorry for my late answer. I feel about the music of the second half of the 20th century like you do. Many of the composers simply compose "modern" to be "modern". Composers like Webern to me were the true "heroes" for taking the path of complete rejection by the music establishment (a...

(3) The music of Webern is very fragile, and shows us a serious and sincere personality. What I love most about him is that he did not stay in describing the cruel world he lived in in his music but that he found an answer for his life: His faith in God. In regard to his influence he is as much i...

Ich gehöre nicht zu den Leuten, die sagen "Neue Musik gehört verboten". Ich kann mich zB für Anton Weberns Spätwerk (ist ja schon ein Klassiker :-) begeistern ... Diese filigranen Strukturen, diese leuchtenden Harmonien ... Die ich in Rihms (scheinbar eher intuitiver) Musik vermisse. Oder die "al...