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
trying today language
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
writing written
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
writing thinking burden
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
writing important pieces
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
sometimes persons fortunate
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
patterns ears visuals
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
musical talent certain
Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
distrust
I distrust anything that you don't hear.
military people precision
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
chord form music ought paradox pursue simply struck true
There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.