This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
- Brian Ferneyhough