Russel Berg <[log in to unmask]> asked:
>Why is Schoenberg an important composer?
That would depend on what criteria one uses for "importance." If a
composer must write beautiful music to be important, then he was
nowhere near important. But if all he had to do was write excruciatingly
horrible noise, and influence a whole movement of other people to
write excruciatingly horrible noise, then, yes, he was important.
Am I the only one thinking, "Here we go again...?"
--Leigh