March 17 - Michael Finnissy (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Series)

Michael Finnissy (b.17 March 1946) is a composer and pianist of a variety of mostly very complex music, some of which actively engages queer politics.
[For last year's entry on Josef Rheinberger click here.]

Limits

Michael Finnissy seeks to vex

The world with music so complex

That normal minds confronted by it

Will not even think to try it.

One never sees a Finnissy score

And wishes he had written more.

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