domfloyd

all the difference in the world.... jupiter is just another classical symphony, expanded to the point of flabbiness, Eroica is just not a classical symphony. it is entirely new, whereas the jupiter is a culmination of something rather older. there is a mammoth personality in the eroica, which there isnt in the jupiter.

Atonal music needs to be serial?! No it doesnt. is Xenakis serial? - no. is Lutoslawski serial? - no. is Schoenberg's Ewartung serial? - No. Atonal music just needs to be structured carefully and intelligently, just like any music. Atonal merely means the absence of a key centre. a piece does not need to be serial to achieve this. you could easily write an atonal piece with no f sharps, therefore not 12 tone.

Mozart is frankly, disgusting. Bach is unbearable. for me, music starts with beethoven. My favorite composers at the moment are Lutoslawski (his third symphony is the greatest symphony of the second half of the 20th century) Bartok, janacek, and for cheap thrills, Liszt...