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RE: Boulez calls Shostakovich a "second-rate composer"

Funny, Boulez calls Shostakovich excellent but second rate because he deemed Shosty too conservative, and not a revolutionary game changer like Berg or Schoenberg -- or, in his implied opinion, like himself. Not quite how you see it, Chris!
This is a good example of how it usually isn't too enlightening to read composers' opinions of other composers. they have too much skin in the game. So it seems non-musician critics do have a place, at least the better ones.


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