I would like to ask a general question to Mrs. Wang and Mr.Heersink:

What do they expect a contemporary or 20th century composer (as I have the
impression they like to mix all this music together as atonal) to compose?
Still in the classical style of Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven? Or, as
evertything that is musically possible in Mrs.  Wangs and Mr.Heersinks
opinion apparently has been said composer should maybe just stop to write
music? Music as all other creative art develops.  Artists do not want to
repeat themselves, thus each of them is looking for new approaches.  Atonal
composition (Schoenberg by the way prefered the term pantonal) was one of
these.  Maybe the most radical one, as it simply denies the rules of
harmony developed in the centuries before.  One does not have to like this
style, but at least respect it as a solution to the problem of finding new
ways in musical expression!  A need for development seems to be natural for
the human brain, not only in music, and approaches to develop (or simply to
change, to create something new and different) should be greeted not
condemned!

It would be nice to have an answer to this from Mrs.  Wang and also to the
several posts of other listers responding to her statement.  ...

Achim Breiling