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In this paper, I will approach the connections I have discovered between two composers born in different centuries and cultures, belonging to distinct historical periods, but having certain biographical resemblances, similar compositional conceptions and multiple stylistic options. Gustav Mahler and Alfred Schnittke have in common the combination of various musical styles and different sources of inspiration, the integration of folkloric elements in musical contexts with new aesthetic features and the approach to ...

Sometimes readily accepted as a minimalist and associated with other musicians of his generation, Philipp Glass or Steve Reich, and other times considered an oriented composer who adapts his creative vision to the current socio-political or cultural context and melts in his synthetic creations a multitude of styles, genres and musics, John Adams is indeed the image of the successful contemporary American artist. Not only did he feel constantly challenged to compose scores in all genres, but he combined with overfl...

At a time when European academic music, as well as long-established jazz on the continent, were in the advanced stages of experimenting with avant-garde languages (integral serialism, Musique concrete, electronic music, mathematical organization, stochastic music, aleatoricism, minimalism etc., respectively free jazz, cool), the Romanian musical culture had come under the influence of a totalitarian ideology, which imposed aesthetic guidelines centered on the principle of accessibility, thus preventing the alignme...