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What does epigone mean?

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Noun
  1. A follower or disciple.
  2. An undistinguished or inferior imitator of a well known artist or their style.
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Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his temperament as a symphonist and the importance of his chamber music, the spiritual heir.
I always suspected – and I knew him slightly – that his ill-repressed rage was actually a function of his status as the epigone's epigone.
But I didn't want to just copy these greats, I didn't want to be an epigone, as I said earlier.
Berg, who was born in Vienna in 1885, is classified in most music histories as an epigone of Arnold Schoenberg.
At first Pascal Chauveau's abstract paintings seem to be some distant epigone of the abstraction which was born after the second Great War.
Yet Roth began as an epigone of Max Bill, obsessively perfect in every way.

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