Arvo Pärt’s compositions are captivating. I was intrigued by the idea of "minimalist music" and particularly admire "Spiegel im Spiegel," "Fratres for String Quartet," and all the pieces in "Creator Spiritus."

I concur with Arvo Part suggestion ...

All these composers go out of the dead end road created by Schoenberg...

😊

Music must speak to the human heart or to the body metabolism or to the soul...When it spoke out of tonality or out of cultural grounded modes or out of articulated rythms as speech is , music begin to be a mind space only where we have nothing to eat and give to the heart, the soul or to the body...

You can heal someone with Bach or Beethoven i doubt you can do it so successfully and easily with the second Viennese school... The OM sound or the CHrist sound or Yoruba speaking drums will do it better ...😊

Finally in music there is tastes, we are each one of us different with our own history and biases, but ultimately music as acoustic is not about tastes..

Tastes there is, but tastes it is not ....

Can we consider nuevo tango as modern classical music? I'm thinking of Dino Saluzzi and Astor Piazzolla 

Why not ?

The most important revolution in European classical written music by "composers" came in the last century with the official discovery by Bartok and others of the cultural roots of music... Before that many composers as Chopin with the mazurkas for example were influenced by popular grounded music in the cultural soil... It was even such in Bach times ...Then came the mixing of these roots all around the earth with classical european music but also the influences  all style  had over all others , not only with folklore transcription as in Bartok times but with recording easier process and play back system ...

This is why i own extensive collection of Persian and Indian music... Or fado etc ... Why not tango ?

But it is the OP thread and idea not mine ... I must shut up ... 😁

Can we consider nuevo tango as modern classical music? I’m thinking of Dino Saluzzi and Astor Piazzolla

I concur with Arvo Part suggestion ...

All these composers go out of the dead end road created by Schoenberg...

😊

Music must speak to the human heart or to the body metabolism or to the soul...When it spoke out of tonality or out of cultural grounded modes or out of articulated rythms as speech is , music begin to be a mind space only where we have nothing to eat and give to the heart, the soul or to the body...

You can heal someone with Bach or Beethoven i doubt you can do it so successfully and easily with the second Viennese school... The OM sound or the CHrist sound or Yoruba speaking drums will do it better ...😊

Finally in music there is tastes, we are each one of us different with our own history and biases, but ultimately music as acoustic is not about tastes..

Tastes there is, but tastes it is not ....

@mahgister

Just because Schoenberg and the 12 tone method is no longer used, does not mean it was a dead end.

The history of classical music is littered with "dead ends" long before the 2nd Viennese school.

The 2nd Viennese school, has remained influential to this day. Just in ways not specifically 12 tone.

Just because you are unable to detect music that speaks to the heart from many contemporary composers, does not mean others are not able to.

You seem to have the feeling that your way of listening to music is the only way. And the only way to convey deep emotion and beauty, is to for the composer tp make it obvious.

Please don’t assume your personal prejudices are an objective fact.