Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
From Leo Ornstein
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.
Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
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.
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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