Arnold Schoenberg

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is a composer who would better off shovelling snow.

[Arnold) Schoenberg would be better off shovelling snow.

is a composer whose music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

is a composer whose influence is to be identified not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art.

In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

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Arnold Schoenberg