Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein was an American composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth2 December 1893
CountryUnited States of America
musical talent certain
Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
patterns ears visuals
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
art simple ends
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
exercise use firsts
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
lines way difficult
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.
writing pieces paper
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.
writing men ears
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.
sometimes persons fortunate
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
writing important pieces
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
thinking trying pieces
I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
writing thinking burden
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
people way certain
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
writing written
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
trying today language
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.