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I think Xenakis may well have been one of those people who was far too clever for his own good. He is very good, but some of his scores (or scordurata, or whatever) are utterly perverse. More so than a lot of 'visual' scores, I'd like some large copies of Xenakis' scores for my walls.
Virtuosity isn't terribly important to me. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. Bit of a damp-squib response, but there you. I will say I think the notion is often beneficial to 'classical' music but detrimental to other forms, especially rock music. Within the context of rock music, I either love virtuosity for perverse reasons (Vai, Malmsteen) or when they elide the technical skill (Bailey, Haino).
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