How to Understand(and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 2: The Wars of the 1950s
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Death of Schoenberg
Even Schoenberg couldn't escape the radicalization of the Boulez followers. The problem for them was that Schoenberg still wrote his atonal music in relatively classical forms. To Boulez, this was a contradiction. You couldn't write music that wasn't meant for classical forms and then try to shove it into that box. Alex Ross: New Music has taken upon itself all the darkness and guilt of the world.
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