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Utter Strangeness. The twelve-tone idiom is music's only salvation, according to Prophet Hodeir, but of all twelve-toners, perhaps only Jean Barraqué measures up to Critic Hodeir's ideal: "A world of utter strangeness." In Hodeir's view, Barraqué's Séquence for soprano and chamber orchestra is one of the "rare works in the history of music," and "the greatest piece of music written in Europe since Debussy's last period." Barraqué's unfinished La Mart de Virgile, to which he expects to devote the rest...
Hodeir's fellow critics in France find Composer Barraqué interesting but by no means a musical messiah. Barraqué himself agrees. "Contemporary music makes me sick," he says. "My last work makes me sick. It lurches...
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