Subject: Re: A good composer
From: Eliot Handelman (eliot@colba.net)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2007 - 23:53:15 EST
hans w. koch wrote:
> late night over here in europ, good time to chime in...
>
> i remember reading a mozart-letter, where he describes composing in
> his head, best after lunch while traveling in a coach.
> the best thing after meditating a piece for a while is (i quote from
> memory) "to hear everything at once, like from an eagles perspective".
> i donīt know, if i get it across right in english (not my
> mothetongue), but he was talking about an aural equivalent to eagles
> perspective, where he could hear the whole piece in one instant.
The letter was faked, there's an essay on this by Maynard Solomon you
might look for.
> i also remember similar lines in chopin, hindemith, schoenberg texts
> about composing.
> not quite note by note
Exactly -- at the point where the music arrives, the brain of the
composer has already endowed it with
complex behaviors, composed out of mind.
-- eliot
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