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Even though Béla Bartók’s music has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it is no less important.
And we are in for a beautiful comparison again
Intended meaning:
We are comparing music by BB, IS and AS.
As per author, although the music by BB is less popular and less influential
than by other two, the music by BB is equally important.
Quote:
(A) Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it
Comparision hold good between music by all three, parallelism showing features of BB's music
(less popular, less influential but not less important) is grammatically and logically parallel.
It here correctly refers to BB's music. No pronoun ambiguity here. Hang on to A.
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(B) Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, he
The usage of HE is incorrect. The pronoun (
he) can refer to a person, not a possessive noun
e.g. Roy's chair or Roy's guitar
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(C) Stravinsky’s is and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s is, it
The comparison goes off-table here, with the introduction of verb:
is Quote:
(D) Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, he
We cannot compare BB's music with IS and AS. We either compare music by all three artists
or three artists themselves. The pronoun he is incorrect for reasons explained in (B)
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(E) Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, it
Again a mess of comparison as in D
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