The most innovative piece of modern music

[I Love Xenakis]

what do you think is the most innovative and important piece of modern music?



Gotta vote for Cage's Chance and Choice personally

[pianistimo]

i tend to like music that pulls from the past into the present - ie bartok, poulenc, rachmaninov.  for bartok - a sort of classicism, for poulenc- renaissance and medieval reminsences, and for rachmaninov - the romantic era.  i like seeing a link - and not a direct cut - but am kind of tied to tradition.  to me, innovation doesn't have to mean something totally new, but sort of born out of the old.

[sevencircles]

Propably something be Schoenberg like String Quartet number 2 or Pianosuite.

Stravinsky must be mentioned too of course

The importance of "Metastasis" by Xenakis and some of Varece´s works is underrated today .

[burstroman]

Not modern by some definitions, but the "Concord Sonata" by C.I.