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
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What it looks like on paper may be interesting enough, but what the listeners hears is ultimately what stays with him, that he is concerned with.
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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
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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.