One of my favorite recent fiction favorite, Victor the Assassin, who likes the classics when not doing his thing, opined that no decent music has been written since the early 20th century. Art restorer Gabriel Allon plays (only) Puccini when restoring the great masters. While I like Mozart, my opera focus is 19th century Italy, and try as I might, I cannot connect with modern stuff. The three essentials of music that I was taught, melody, harmony and rythym are missing the first two in modern music, at least to these ears.
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