Eric Schissel ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Composers whose last works seem to me to be not only great but to explore
>strange, perhaps unique "territories" include Beethoven, Zemlinsky,
>Sibelius, Holmboe, Brian, and perhaps Robert Simpson.  ...

To which I'd add Bruckner:  the first movement of his 9th is certainly
other-wordly.  Or, as somebody put it, he exploresall the gothic
possibilities of D minor which the first movement of Beethoven's 9th
outlined.

Deryk Barker
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