| >> | No.45328220 >>45328144 i read those two posts as a reference to one of boulez' trolls, here, have a list of them
>Brahms "a bore”
>Tchaikovsky “abominable”
>Verdi “stupid, stupid, stupid!”
>Schoenberg "most ostentatious and obsolete romanticism”
>Webern “too simple”
>Berg “bad taste”
>Ravel “affectation”
>Shostakovich "a second, or even third, pressing of Mahler"
>contemporary twelve-tone music "overrun by number-fanatics engaging in frenetic arithmetic masturbation”
>Messiaen “brothel music”
>John Cage “performing monkey"
>Stockhausen “hippie"
>American minimalism “a supermarket aesthetic”
>American serialism “a cashier’s point of view”
>>45328152 way to be pedantic. webern wrote many works that are to be considered symphonic, save for their title - "im sommerwind", the passacaglia, the orchestral variations, etc. |