Pick a composer, any. Your favorite or ones you dislike. Do you ever critically question why they wrote the piece or why they wrote certain parts that they did? Or do you just accept any creativity that came (or comes) from them? Maybe you question why did Bach pursue a technical composition using the last energy of his life by writing Art of Fugue? Or maybe you question why Mahler wrote such gigantic symphonies when it could have been done on a smaller and elegant scale? Or maybe you questio [...]
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