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