Steve Schwartz [[log in to unmask]] wrote:

>...the symphony - a genre many Europeans considered dead by that time
>(note that Bartok never wrote one)

Fourtunatley not all considered it dead. Pettersson started on his first
symphonies at this time, and he showed that there are more to be said; the
genre isn't dead. Although Pettersson is firmly rooted in the tradition,
just in his own shape.

Mats Norrman
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