The Formalist also began publishing at this time.
Although Igor Stravinsky did not live in the Union,
his music was officially considered Formalist and anti-Soviet.
Although Igor Stravinsky did not live in
the Soviet Union, his music was considered Formalist and anti-Soviet.
The most notable critique of
minimalism was produced by Michael Fried, a Formalist critic, who objected to the work on the basis of its“theatricality”.
(The choral finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, as well as the programmatic Sixth Symphony,
became problematic to Formalist critics who had championed the composer as a pioneer of the‘Absolute',
especially with the late quartets).
(The choral finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, as well as the programmatic Sixth Symphony,
became problematic to Formalist critics who had championed the composer as a pioneer of the Absolute,
especially with the late quartets).