It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
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Yes, well, I tell you, because once I have completed a work, I simply am interested only in what I may hear in the next work that's coming.Leo Ornstein
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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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We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
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