Also the waltzing Strausses, Suppe, Gluck and Hugo Wolf and a little distance away, separated perhaps by a cordon sanitaire, the atonalist Arnold Schonberg. |
The grievous error he and his atonalist cohorts made was to dictate the path of new music to the exclusion of all else. |
There was also no piece of music, from medieval chansons to the most contemporary atonalist, that he didn't have in his vast collection of records and tapes. |
It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word. |