I like Bartok's string quartet like no-one else's except Beethoven's. It may be that I am "imprinted" on the 1979 Tokyo SQ's cycle as I haven't found...
So many of the forgotten, less-known composers whose music is collecting dust is for that very reason: they broke no new ground, had nothing to add....
They included the dialogue for the better known works. I don't know if the thinking was that people wouldn't be interested in it for the lesser works...
There are many ways to break new ground. There is merely having a distinctive voice (which is surely essential for a composer to be considered great...
