What Was the Reaction to Modern, Heavily Academic Music, as Composed

What was the reaction to modern, heavily academic music, as composed by Arnold Schoenberg and others?

A) Large audiences responded to such new, "serious" music even more eagerly than admirers of Picasso responded to his painting style.
B) Such modern, "serious" music departed very little from the compositions of the previous generation; audiences remained about the same in number and enthusiasm.
C) For the most part, audiences responded negatively because they felt such modern, "serious" music was unoriginal and far too similar to what they had been used to.
D) Audiences dwindled because few people still enjoyed classical music performed by orchestras, such as that of Wagner and Verdi.
E) Such modern, "serious" composition did not garner nearly as much support as did performances tied to the classical canon of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers.