How do you think great composers feel about their own work?!
Question: How do you think great composers feel about their own work!?
for example when you hear the score to Star Wars you probably think it's absolutely amazing music, and it may be so good that itl inspire you to write music of your own, so you too can create something beautiful!. but do you think composers have that same enthusiasm for their work when they've written that perfect theme, melody or arrangement!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
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I think it varies from composer to composer!. On one extreme you have those like Mozart who seems to have realized his genius and knew how good his music was and didn't mind expressing so, and others on the opposite side like Beethoven who was constantly crossing out, rewriting and reworking his music!. Both were driven to get the sounds they heard onto paper, and I doubt that, except perhaps for a handful of exceptions, any composer ever thinks he or she has written the perfect theme, melody or arrangement!. That elusive goal of striving toward perfection is one of the reasons any composer continues to write!.
Musician, composer, teacher!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Ummm I doubt John Williams is proud of his work!. I mean he's obviously a huge Stravinsky and Prokofiev fan (he steals from them quite frequently) and in his mind I'm sure he believes himself to be their inferiors!. I'm farily sure Beethoven and Mozart both loved their own work because they realized the not so great composers all around them!. Bach was probaly confused because he had to realize that he was a genius and by far the greatest one of the age but no one appreciated his work back as he should've been appreciated so he might've thought he was missing something!. People did though appreciate Mozart and Beethoven and I'm sure they were proud of their work!. I know damn well that I'm proud of my work and it's not even very good but just the fact that I can do makes me proud!. Later on great composers started to have great egos like Stravinsky ran out crying when people stormed the stage of Rite of Spring!. Of course the next day every reviewer said it was a masterpiece but the first night it caused a riot!. Scriabin actually thought himself to be supernatural (I found this out recently on YA)!. Cesar Cui thought himself to be great trashing works of other composers of his time like Rachmaninoff and Korsakov when in the end they were remembered far more than he was!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I can name a few composers who didn't like well-known compositions of their own:
Tschaikovsky didn't like the 1812 Overture!.
Beethoven didn't like Minuet in G!.
Ravel didn't like Pavane for a Defunct Princess!.
While Puccini was working on Girl of the Golden West, he thought it was going to be his greatest opera, but he was disappointed with it afterward!.
Sometimes, a composer resents seeing one of his works rated higher than other works which considers better!.
Ravel felt that way about Bolero!.
Beethoven didn't think the Moonlight Sonata was his best sonata, and instead preferred one of his lesser-known sonatas!.
I wonder what Pachelbel would say if he came back and heard his composition twinkling on ever cel phone!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Tschaikovsky didn't like the 1812 Overture!.
Beethoven didn't like Minuet in G!.
Ravel didn't like Pavane for a Defunct Princess!.
While Puccini was working on Girl of the Golden West, he thought it was going to be his greatest opera, but he was disappointed with it afterward!.
Sometimes, a composer resents seeing one of his works rated higher than other works which considers better!.
Ravel felt that way about Bolero!.
Beethoven didn't think the Moonlight Sonata was his best sonata, and instead preferred one of his lesser-known sonatas!.
I wonder what Pachelbel would say if he came back and heard his composition twinkling on ever cel phone!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
No one knows for sure how they felt except for them!. As for Canon in D on every cell phone, I'm sure he would have said "Damn if I was alive today I would be a millionaire!." LOLWww@Enter-QA@Com