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