Wilson Pereira:
>I've been following the interesting discussion about intellectual
>musicians. Well, how about intellectual composers? Which composers
>would you consider as intellectuals, in the lato sensu meaning? Brahms?
>Schumann? Wagner? Mahler? Any opinions?
I'm still not clear on the distinction. Is this a composer who is also
an intellectual - ie, reads books, thinks about ideas, writes articles,
etc. - or a composer who may be said to have an "intellectual" approach
to composition - mathematically based, for example? Furthermore, is the
"intellectual" characterization a matter of what the composer does or
how listeners respond to what he does?
Steve Schwartz