You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

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.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

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.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.