>>20439018Has to do with the rise of modernist/atonal music which quickly became the enforced dogma of high art music. It was the music that was taught, funded, reviewed and performed for the majority of the 20th century. The thing about this particular type of music though, is that it represented a complete rejection of the Western tradition of classical music. It's absolute wank, and so repellent you have to be indoctrinated into finding any enjoyment in it. As a result, nobody listened to it, and this new classical music was completely ignored by the masses, becoming the refuge of university professors and music theory dweebs. This is to say that, in essence, the reason why nobody likes classical music is because it's continued development has been denied to them by a type of music which subverted the tradition, and then proudly wore it's fleshsuit for over a century. It's irrelevance became classical music's irrelevance. It's a crime of the highest magnitude, I can't overstate it. Google the 2nd Viennese school, you couldn't make it up.
