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Everyone rehashes someone else's ideas. Very, very few people innovate. That doesn't make their 'experiments' bad, it just usually means they're not experiments in the broadest sense. The people I know who make the best music are also the people who've given up on making 'crazy new sounds' or 'experimental' things. I picked up Xenakis' Formalized Music again today, and I was struck by how little interest he has in experimentation for the sake of it, and it just interested in reflecting his non-musical interests in his music (though he seems to have a notion of a gestalt art).
Whether Xenakis was or wasn't the most innovative composer of the 20th-century is less important than the success of his work, and the work he put into developing an aesthetic - the real iconoclasts, if there are any, are working on a singular aesthetic rather than trying to break with convention.
Also, Herr fugazifan is cock on about the Beethoven/ Bach thing. Beethoven wasn't 'deaf' until the 9th, and even then there's a big debate over the extent of his deafness.
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