Steve Schwarz (on my comments about DF Tovey):

>Furthermore, does he have to be as good as (fill in the blank of
>your favorite "great") in order to understand the music?

Of course not; my former commentary was just a malignous joke...:-)

Talking seriously:  I meant that being a composer doesn't necessarily
makes you understand better the music.  Actually, I believe that being a
composer often gives you a lot of proffesional prejudices about some of
your colleagues and their works.  Being a good critic requires certain
special sensibility:  Tovey had this sensibility, but Hanslick had it too.

Pablo Massa
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