Stirling Newberry wrote:

>...The common misconception is that the listener's experience is the
>measure of the composer's intent, or that the composer's intent is
>somehow th most important factor in the creation ofa work of art.
>
>Both of these misconceptions arise out of a kind of self-centeredness of
>the consumer of art, or out of the artists own misunderstanding of what
>work is.

I would argue that the misconception arises out of our prevailing
post-Romantic view of art, which tends to identify the work with the
creator.

Peter Goldstein