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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