by ohthatpatrick Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:37 pm
Line 20-23 says that B and S shared this in common:
they worked in a changing/evolving style that hung onto tradition while blazing new ground.
Line 23-25 is only about S:
S's three different musical styles hung onto tradition while blazing new ground.
Line 25-27 is only about S:
S began in the late-Romantic manner of his youth.
I think you were keeping "Like Beethoven" on your radar for too long, when the next two sentences had dropped that modifier and were only speaking about "he" = Schoenberg.
In that period from like 1600 - 1900, the big stylistic periods of music were
Baroque, then Classical, then Romantic
Beethoven/Mozart belong to that middle era. LSATs not expecting us to know that, I'm just giving you a relevant factoid from Wikipedia in case it makes something in the future easier to interpret.
Hope this helps.