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"The string quartet has a special place in classical music. Modernists of the past century: Bartok, Shostakovich and Milhaud among the most prolific and respected. Ionoclasts like Schönberg, Berg, Babbitt and Carter confirmed a connection to the tradition and created works which adhered to the formal logic and dramatic ambience of those of their predecessors while incorporating their own compositional procedures. But there have been exceptions as well, extremist composers who rejected the genre outright, or distorted it beyond recognition. Morton Feldman fits into the latter category, or does he?" Art Lange