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