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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Can a composer "compose" too much (AKA John W. & Harry Potter) posted by Rich Stone on December 2, 2002 at 18:03:02:
I'm not exactly sure that the most productive composers always have their own hands directly on the works they publish under their own names. Between reworkings of old ideas, "knock-off" works containing shallow ideas, and "delegated" works actually written/completed by others, many major composers often leave less there than meets the eye.I once heard that the author Stephen King uses a team of ghost writers (pun intended) to produce novels "in his style". Stephen King is actually "Stephen King Inc." -- a horror story conglomerate. I believe the same can be said of some very famous composers of the past (Haydn's name is often mentioned in this regard, as is J.S. Bach himself, who had several able-bodied composer-sons). However, it is also clear that some extremely productive composers, such as Beethoven and D. Scarlatti, most likely never allowed anyone to participate in their creative process beyond transcribing music to paper.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that John Williams receives commissions for film scores, and subsequently doles out the actual work to a team of composers-in-training, sound engineers and lawyers. There's nothing sacrilegious about it at all -- it's just the music business as it has always been. For every soul-searching Bruckner ("true artists"?) there is a counter-example of a "commercial artist" ostensibly less focused the upon creative process. It is often hard to differentiate between the two, and history is rife with inaccurate labelings -- most likely even in its assessment of the holy.
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