And why is it Frank Zappa?
>>128862040it wasn't him. he was the best guitar soloist of the 20th century and that is good enough.
>>128862040he was incredibly talented, but his actual attempts at contemporary classical kind of sucked
>>128862040Frank shot a man in Reno just to hear him fart
>>128862040lol, no.he actually got worse and worse with age
>>128862040Vaughan Williams, what are you retarded?
>>128862040The thing is, do you know any composer of the 20th century apart from him? Who are they? Why do you dislike them and which pieces do you dislike?
>>128862040surely the composers affinity for tuplets and suspended chords is as valid a measure as anything else
>>128862051>his actual attempts at contemporary classical kind of suckedWhat does contemporary even mean in this context? Stravinsky? Varese? Stockhausen?Xenakis?>>128862074>Vaughan Williams,Thanks for the recommendation. I am listening now, but did he do anything funky?>>128862228>Why do you dislike them and which pieces do you dislike?It's not a matter of "dislike". I contend that Zappa is the most well-rounded composer, offering a library of works that covers damn-near every genre of temporal relevance, executed with sufficient skill as to be palatable to a wider audience that would otherwise not care.I know of no other composer from the 20th-century who came close to his breadth.
>>128862844>What does contemporary even mean in this contexti mean his actual attempts at actual classical music, it ranges from ok to really bad
>>128862919>it ranges from ok to really badI don't understand what that means without a basis for comparison. What is another composer's work who is "ok" in your estimation? I'd like to compare it against Zappa's "ok" work. Then maybe I would understand what you mean by "bad".
>>128862919>citing LSO vol 1 instead of yellow shark when criticizing franks contemporary classicalbad faith, even Frank said the LSO sucked and didn’t really wanna play his music, it was enough to just get them to record it.
>>128862040Igor StravinskyArnold SchoenbergBéla BartókDmitri ShostakovichClaude DebussyOlivier MessiaenSergei ProkofievMaurice RavelJohn CageGyörgy Ligeti
>>128863236From his bookshelf...
>>128862040based bobby brown
>>128863236Great composer picks anon. Also Nikolai Medtner is a great composer from this era that people should check out. I especially like his Sonatas and Skazki pieces.
>>128862040LOL>>128863236If we're going to count guys like Debussy who died in 1918, we might as well include Scriabin and Fauré. Koechlin and Poulenc are also fantastic, and like >>128865409 said, Medtner is a good shout, but I'd also like to point out that Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux are one of the greatest sets of solo piano works ever.
