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Teaching to aspire to

Written on 21 Dec 2007

I know this is the right way to teach, it’s just taking me quite a while to get there.
Stockhausen later said: “In many respects Messiaen did the opposite of what I wanted. He never tried to convince me. That made him a good teacher. He did not give instruction in composition, but showed me how he understood the music of others and how he worked himself.”

via On an Overgrown Path

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