Posted by John Rasmussen on July 16, 19102 at 10:43:59:

In Reply to: this is a little wrong posted by ************************************* on May 01, 19101 at 15:49:52:

Is it "korn limp bizkit" etc. who use instruments well? Or is it their studio engineers? Tchaikovsky (and most of the other classical composers into the 20th century) wrote all the parts themselves. And all of them through the mid-19th century were also performers and thus had a natural knowledge of what instruments could do and, more important, what they couldn't.

This is not to dismiss modern pop artists. Many have fine visions. But I sense that not many have extensive backgrounds in instruments to realize these visions.

But then, not much music has the inherent beauty of Tchaikovsky's. Just listen to Symphony #1, 2nd movement, a few measures after the beginning, for one of the great oboe melodies of the ages. Also the Swan's theme from Swan Lake. (I'm an oboist myself, so I know whereof I speak.)

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