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In Reply to: Re: In your face: Shostakovich is the greatest 20thC composer posted by Jwm on February 28, 2007 at 13:33:16:
Shostakovich is essentially 'post-Mahlerian' composer. Stockhausen et al is post-war avangard.So it is like apples and oranges. There is no such a thing like 20th Century music. There is a music of those who continued the classical tradition, like Second Vienese School, Bartok, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, among the most prominent --- and those who radically broke away, sometime in late 40th-early 50th, primarily Darmstadt School (Stockhausen, Boulez, at some later point - Ligeti), Xenakis and others. With Edgar Varese as a sort of their predecessor.
So does it make sense to say: who's better: Shostakovich or Xenakis. Say, take Shostakovich 'Leningrad' Symphony and Xenakis' Metastasis. Both are written as a reaction on some War events. Both are very impressive and in fact talk about very personal (and highly tragic) experience. Yet these compositions belong to completely different traditions. It probably makes sense to ask "Shostakovich vs Mahler" or "Xenakis vs Ligeti", but not Shostakovich vs Xenakis.
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