However, a very great composer was around at the time.

But he was not a great composer, or even a good one.

NO other great composer had so much music to throw away.

Although he was a very great composer, people in Vienna did not always like his music.

But imagine how I felt, walking around in the land of the great composers.

This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers.

In Paris he was able to listen to music by a lot of great composers.

These rules are not laws, they simply mean: the way that most great composers wrote music in the past.

You've got to stick to your guns, the way the great composers did.

Those who do this follow a precedent set by all great composers.