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In Reply to: RE: Interesting. posted by rbolaw on March 1, 2015 at 18:15:17:
You pretty much made my point for me. What music sells? What composers are played most in concert? Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Bruckner, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky -- you know the list. Yes, some modernists do get played or purchased, but not nearly as often.
Academic may not coincide with public opinion. If you ask the average listener who they consider modernist composers, they'll mention maybe Schoenberg, Berg, Cage(and if they even know the names)Varese, Messiaen, Gubaidulina -- composers of that ilk. Based on the music they hear in concert and on the radio, I don't think most listeners would consider Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Poulenc as modernists -- or even Prokofiev, Bartok or Shostakovich, because the most abrasive music by these composers is rarely played in concert or on the radio.
I looked at the list of Modernist Composers on Wikipedia and was laughing. Bach, Haydn, Gershwin, Reger. Uh, no.
Of course, I don't move in the academic music circles, so my opinion could be way off track.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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Follow Ups
- RE: Interesting. - Amphissa 22:48:50 03/01/15 (4)
- Modernist composers - Chris from Lafayette 10:24:38 03/02/15 (2)
- Smart kids. I guess ... - rbolaw 14:34:24 03/02/15 (1)
- Yes - the younger one became a piano major at Northwestern [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:10:48 03/02/15 (0)
- RE: Interesting. - rbolaw 07:34:17 03/02/15 (0)
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