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Marcus wrote:
>John Smyth wrote:
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>>Who is more important, the composer or the performer?
As someone who is a sometime composer and sometime performer, I would say
this: The good composer receives *spiritual* payment by 1) enjoying true
immortality and 2) experiencing those moments of pure ecstasy when, in the
course of composition, his/her muse fully reveals itself.
The performer gets $1000000 a night for 1) completely dominating his/her
instrument through years of practice, 2) interpreting a score, 3) dragging
people off the street and into the concert hall by virtue of name
recognition, and 4) getting the notes right in front of audience, critic
and fellow musician.
I would say the currency conversion rate between composer here is 1 to 1.
Plus, (unscientifically), there is an average of 28320 notes in Bach's WTC
Book 1, (average prelude/fugue has 1180 notes, times 24 of them), and at
$1000000 per performance, you're looking at only $35 dollars a note.
John Smyth
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