Well, no. I believe that it... by Leo Ornstein, an American Composer

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“Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.”

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Leo Ornstein

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Name: Leo Ornstein

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 2, 1892

Date of Death: Feb 24, 2002

Profession: Composer

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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

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No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

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