This composer's music is characterized by extreme brevity and textures so disjunct that melodic lines sometimes dissolve into a succession of minute splotches of color; his work has been compared to the painting technique called pointillism

A) Gustav Mahler
B) Erik Satie
C) Dimitri Shostakovich
D) Anton Webern


D

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a. true b. false

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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