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Scaruffi is absolute garbage.
One retort I've heard against Scaruffi-haters is that people say "Scaruffi values innovation! He doesn't like anyone who is derivative!"
If that's so, then why does he have Elliott Carter's Symphony of Three Orchestras on his GOAT list? Accessible here under "Most significant works of music 1950-1990 ": http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/best100.html
That work is derivative of Stockhausen's Gruppen, which already performed the same concept.
>Gruppen (German: Groups) for three orchestras (1955–57) is amongst the best-known compositions of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 6 in the composer's catalog of works. Gruppen is "a landmark in 20th-century music . . . probably the first work of the post-war generation of composers in which technique and imagination combine on the highest level to produce an undisputable masterpiece" (Smalley 1967, 794).
Similarly, why is Shostakovich's 15th Symphony placed on the almighty altar of #1, when it is but a footnote in his Ouerve particularly compared to his 14th Symphony, which utilized radical instrumentation choices as well as causing massive protest over its stark portrayal of death?
>The absence from the symphony of redemption or transcendence drew protests not only in the Soviet Union but also in the West, where the work was considered both obsessive and limited spiritually. Shostakovich was determined to avoid false consolation. This intent was a prime stimulus in writing the work. Some have found that the work's embracing of human mortality has been expressed with tremendous clarity.[12] Others have found the work bleakly pessimistic and, especially in its opening De Profundis, virtually nihilistic. Regardless of opinion, the Fourteenth in performance is agreed to be a profound and powerful experience.[13]
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