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RE: hmm

That's a very interesting question and one I've asked myself many times. I tend to think that a 20th century Mozart would have wasted his genius as Schoenberg did. Genius never exists apart from culture, and the culture of the early 20th century wasn't conducive to writing great music. The modernist idiom was too limiting, consisting as it does essentially of a thoughtless rejectionism that reduces ultimately to the freedom to do anything that hasn't been shown to work. Which, unfortunately, omits everything that has been shown to! Since music isn't arbitrary, but is heavily constrained by physics, mathematics, and human perception and psychology, the freedom to screech, moan, and wail wasn't freedom at all.


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