The composer did not try to make piano music out of these pieces.

It's what's inside the work that tells us what the composer is trying to do.

If other composers try to speak with those words, what results can only be a plagiarism.

Sometimes this was because other composers were jealous and tried to make Mozart look bad.

But just a few years after its composition, the composer tried to drown himself in that same river.

Other composers try to draft the general shape and sound of a moment, then proceed to elaborate it.

Far too many composers try to please audiences by placating them.

The composer tried to reflect the Chinese setting of the story in the music.

Music, like poetry or painting, Jack told himself, was a means of communication, but he'd never quite figured out what composers were trying to say.

I think that time is already over when composers are trying to find extremes.