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Kapustin was a Soviet-born composer known for fusing classical sensibilities and jazz in his compositions. Seurat was a painter who painted few works overall, but is generally considered to have initiated Neo-Impressionism with the chromoluminarist techniques that he employed in such famous paintings as A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

I personally feel that Shostakovich's 15th fits with many theatre of the absurd plays due to the atmosphere it creates both in the beginning and ending of the symphony, and due to the startling effect of the symphony's several allusions to outside works.