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