[PW] Successful artists who hated school?

[Nina Gilbert]

I wouldn't say that about the great composers.  They had great private tutors.  In Mozart's case, his father was a world-renowned music pedagog whose books are still studied.  I know there's a Romantic image of the wild untaught composer, but it's not true.

Nina Gilbert
Education and Community Programs Manager, Boston Lyric Opera
former music professor
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Willis G. Regier <wregier at uiuc.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:51:07 AM
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Also Whitman, Van Gogh, Jack London.

Many great composers (Beethoven, Mozart)  received little or no formal
education other than their art.  

Willis Regier

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
 Sylvia
Milne
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:35 AM
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Subject: [PW] Successful artists who hated school?

Another candidate is Charlotte Bronte who was unhappy at the Clergy 
Daughters' School Cowan Bridge.
In "Jane Eyre" Jane asks Helen Burns if she wants to leave Lowood
 School.
" "No! why should I? I was sent to Lowood to get an education; and it
 would 
be of no use going away until I have attained that object."

Sylvia Milne

Please visit me at
http://www.sylviamilne.co.uk 


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