But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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.
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.