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Pfitzner versus Berg

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Mosco Carner examines a famous musical polemic of (he 1920s which engaged Pfitzner and Alban Berg. For Pfitzner. inspiration was something completely spontaneous and was incapable of being dissected or analysed. Its quality could be intuitively felt but not demonstrated. Berg attacked this in an article called The Musical Impotence of Hans Pfutner 's 'New Aesthetics

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Mosco Carner
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Alban Berg.
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Hans Pfutner
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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