Pablo Massa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>From a composition teacher you can learn everything about music, except
>how to compose it...That training is necessary...

Wasn't J.S.  Bach largely self-taught and untrained though? I can think of
other examples also which show that, in some instances, such "training" is
in fact not necessary to some persons who are extremely musically "gifted"
with the ability to compose.

"Greg Conn" <[log in to unmask]>