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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

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There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

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Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: December 2nd, 1892

Died: February 24th, 2002

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