In Reply to: Boulez calls Shostakovich a "second-rate composer" posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 20, 2016 at 10:44:30:
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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Follow Ups
- RE: Boulez calls Shostakovich a "second-rate composer" - rbolaw 17:53:53 01/20/16 (4)
- Well, not all composers feel as Boulez did about musical "progress" - Chris from Lafayette 18:53:24 01/20/16 (3)
- RE: Well, not all composers feel as Boulez did about musical "progress" - rbolaw 05:40:06 01/21/16 (2)
- Hmm. . . I wonder if Milton Cross just rode the wave. . . - Chris from Lafayette 08:35:56 01/21/16 (1)
- Right guy, right place, right time ... that's show biz! ;-) nt - rbolaw 09:58:31 01/21/16 (0)