Musical Taste and Ideological Predisposition

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Roy Bland


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Quote from: Roy Bland on March 23, 2025, 07:20:31 PMIMHO is interesting  that Furtwangler  contrasted Schoenberg with the childish Shostakovich

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/stories/arnold-schoenerg-premiere-op-31/

Thank you, it was interesting read. "He saw in the "efforts of an Alban Berg, Schoenberg et al." the counterpart to the "modern infantilism of a Shostakovich", and was always at pains to defend the inventor of twelve-tone music against his narrow-minded followers."