the contrapuntal melodies in mvt. 1 sound like exact transcriptions of the improvised melodies of post-bop jazz musicians from the 60s onward, in particular freddie hubbard, tom harrell, woody shaw, etc. incredible how the two forms developed in parallel, offset by only a few years

Exactly, jazz kept redefining itself until the deaths of Coltrane and Miles. Classical music is the keeper of the flame while jazz festivals today feature everything but jazz...