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Matter of taste: the second Viennese school, Bartok & Shostakovitch is pretty much the only classical I can tolerate, the "mimsy" stuff leaves me cold. Horses f

• rectang 7mo ago
  Bartok never wrote using the 12-tone serial method. He wrote dense harmonies, especially in his middle period (e.g. the sonatas for violin and piano), but in terms of how he devised those harmonies he has more in common with Glass than Schönberg. Especially Bartok’s late works are more approachable (Concerto for Orchestra, Piano Concerto no. 3) and while they don’t slam home a tonal key like the end of Beethoven’s Fifth, the harmonies are plenty recognizable.