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Originally Posted by Ararita
He is as important to our time as Beethoven was to his day.
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I really doubt any one individual could have an impact on the infinitely wide array of musical practices in our globalized and decentralized world that would be comparable in any meaningful sense to the impact of Beethoven on the rigidly codified musical practice of central Europe in the early 19th century.
The analogy is simply not helpful in trying to understand the significance of any artist working today and what that artist's project or trajectory are all about.