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Originally Posted by Justin Tokke
No it's not. Improv outside of Jazz has only caught on in the last half-century. Last I checked, Beethoven, Tchaik, Wagner, Mahler, had no improv in them. I do not need to know how to improvise be a classical musician.
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Really?
Last I checked, all those composers could improvise while they were alive, and they could do it well.
I'm pretty sure some of their pieces were written-down improvisations, too.