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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. (I'm thinking
specifically of composers whose last works are not only wonderful but
seem, at least sometimes, to say something, and say it in a way, no
other composer (that I know of) ever said. This applies to Nielsen's
6th symphony as well so perhaps I should include him, and to his clarinet
concerto, but the other very late works I know of his... I'm not so
sure. But then, i don't know that many. Are the three motets from
around the same time?)
(Late Shostakovich and late Vainberg, too, could also get very strange-
and in different ways; as I don't tire of saying, outside of his
best-known works Vainberg really wasn't a Shostakovich-clone.)
Eric Schissel
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