Rothko Chapel (1971). Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman, in a 1989 interview, says that his painter associates all listened to his work but had conventional tastes in music:

When I first met [Mark] Rothko, he said, "You know, Morty, my favorite composer is Mendelssohn." Actually that's what the Japanese philosopher [D.T.] Suzuki said to John Cage - that his favorite composer was Mendelssohn.