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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry)
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Subject: Re: Poor composers (or ill-gotten motives)
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 09:24:58 EDT
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Re: the well-loved hack composer who stole from the poor unknown (and
probably still unknown) composer.  Not likely (but if you now of one
such, there is a good PhD thesis in historical musicology), but here
is a relevant and instructive anecdote.

One of Brahms' students was analysing a composition of Brahms and pointed
out that one of themes was from a piece by another composer.

Brahms' reply: "Any ass can see that!"

Moral: its what you do with it that is important.