Bill Pirkle [[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>- Some composers started late in life
Of what Herr Pirkle listed I think this is saying something i favour for
the nature argument. Or could anyone explain what interesting environment
Bantok arrived in in his late twenties? I would like to visit that
environment too!
>Now, if nurture, what must be learned learned, experienced or suffered
>through to become a great composer?
I think an important thing is to have a natural great ego.
>I will start the discussion with this bold statement "A healthy virgin
>brain can be shaped to be anything including another Beethoven, Mozart, or
>Chopin. Its the knowledge - stupid"
Sorry, it is very stupid.
Mats Norrman
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