Have you ever wondered what was going through a composers head as he worked? Okay, I know that most of you non-music people couldn't care less or that particular random thought never came (I love random thoughts!) into your head, but I have been wondering that today. I love the movie Amadeus becuase it shows Mozart conducting this beautiful peice of music. The music grows, and then all of a sudden it stops, you see Mozart sitting at a table and looking up at his wife who has just entered the room calling his name. The one I really wonder how he ticked is Beethoven. Hell for me would be losing my hearing. I do not think that I could go deaf and stay sane. To be a musician and locked in a silent world...I can not understand how that is even bearable. I need sound! I wonder how these songs come to composers. How do you know how to translate something into music? Music really is a language, yet how do you turn the spoken word into sound? Facinating! I wonder what it feels like to have a symphony bursting to get out of you. How much can you hear at first? How can you dream up complex sonatas? God is truely good to let echos of heavens harmonies drift down to earth. I wonder if composers ever feel like they are only grasping what they wanted to say, barely doing what they heard justic?
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