In any event, Nietzsche's music, in a conservative mid-19th-century Germanic idiom, seems oddly solemn, even turgid, compared with Andreas-Salome's hot-blooded poetical passion.

Most of the Czech composers from Terezin wrote in fairly conservative idioms of the 1920's and 30's, predominantly Neo-Classical and accessible.

Its success was fatally compromised when Korngold's father, a powerful Viennese music critic, viciously attacked Krenek and defended the time-honored virtues of his son's more conservative idiom.

Back in Cambridge, a number of his compositions were successfully performed, but he was insecure about their unfashionably conservative idiom, and eventually destroyed most of his works.

It sets a grandmother's tale from Ken Kesey's book "The Demon Box" (1986) in a conservative contemporary idiom heavily laced with descriptive sounds and jazz.

Not surprisingly, he ran afoul of the authorities in 1936 and began writing in a more conservative idiom in order to avoid charges of formalism.

Most of the modern pieces, though, were by Australian composers working in more conservative idioms.

Bellasio published five books of madrigals, in a well-crafted, conservative and contrapuntal idiom.

Strauss turned to a more conservative idiom in his own work after 1909 and at that point dismissed Schoenberg.

Finally came an early sonata by Henri Dutilleux, the living giant of French music, here adopting a fairly conservative idiom indebted to Honegger.