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I think that either your teacher was very mistaken, or a number of mine have
been. Bach was a legendary as a musician and improviser during his own time
(he was famous as a keyboardist before he becamse famous as a composer), but
it wasn't all 'by ear' :> Mozart was.
** so was beethoven and (i believe) brahms - - who supported his family as a teen by playing in the brothels of hamburg ( i think it was), my guess being that no one would mind if he just jammed. bach was supposed to be able to improvise 4-part fugues (scary!) - - the nusical offering being born out of just such an exercise, i believe.
my personal take is that much of 19th-cent comp was codified piano improvisations. unless you were bruckner and then they were organ improvs (i think you can really hear the way the composer's main instrument colored how they wrote).
>that's been pretty much the pattern in art and scholarship: first the
>intuitive artists put it together and then the analysts take it
>apart. Finally, the poor students have to emulate the masters by
>le-based exercises, and most of them get throttled in the process.
Most?
All.
** hmm, to be fair, that sort of thing has also helped people as well. even though i'm sort of an auto-didact, i acknowledge that there is stuff to be learned from people who do that sort of thing.
stig
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