How to Understand(and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 2: The Wars of the 1950s
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Boulez's Total Serialism
No note was allowed to repeat before all 12 notes were played, which went beyond Messian's ideas. Boulez turned his back literally on composers like Dutija and noisily walked out of performances calling Shostakovich's music a third-rate pressing of Moller. "The violence of this music is absolutely intentional," he says.
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