Bill writes:

>1) would the critiques of the composer community be vastly different
>from the critiques of the music critic community over a large sampling
>or original music? Do composers listen for and hear different things in
>a composition?

Many critics are composers or would be composers. In fact many of the
people who are now remembered primarily as critics thought of themselves
as composers: Hoffman, deFetis - and more and more Virgil Thomson. Schumann
was better known as critic than composer for a portion of his life, so too
was Wagner a published critic before he had written anything notable.

>2) when there is a conflict, whose opinion should prevail?

The one who got it right.

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