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In reply to Qcc: Personally, I don't think I've ever despised a composer for a "lack of craft". Maybe they couldn't bring down to paper their artistic ideas as well as someone who has mastered the "craft" (which is already almost impossible to define), maybe their music sounds clumsy or whatever, but that's no reason to despise it, as much as there's no reason to despise a clumsy watchmaker. You simply don't buy his watches if they don't work well enough for you.
If anything, I find aesthethic reasons more appropriate to not appreciate a composer, as this is the actual core of composition. If an aesthetic stand goes completely against my own musical thinking, I have a much greater trouble accepting it than if the just the orchestration sucks. Of course it's not as "objective" as technical considerations, but it touches me more personally, and thus it's logical that it creates a stronger emotional response from me.
Also, composers who get complacent with their technical abilities and do nothing but show off what they are able to do annoy me much more than composers who "lack in craft". I'm getting tired of all these composers who continuously have to show me what amazing palette of orchestral colours they can control, everything perfect and round throughout, without any roughness or edges where you could possibly attack them, and without a trace of original thought.
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