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Originally Posted by Qccowboy
One need not deny one's own "modernism" to appreciate great artistry.
Sibelius is too often relegated to the definition of "post romantic", or even outright "romantic". Yet much of his music owes much of its identity to the 20th century.
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Exactly, but the point i was trying to make, was that actually i think S was in many ways a rather modern composer, the architecture of 7 being a great example of his courage to look further than "sonata-blocks" (-- which cannot be said of a Schönberg piece without caution). And i definately think that for example Leibowitz was just a really bad musician to call Sibelius "the worst composer in the world" -- supposedly because he wasn't "modern" enough -- not to mention Adornos failure at understanding S's formal thinking (which seems to be appreciated rather well by contemporary music theory sholars).
