I enjoyed this very much. It reminded me of a couple of stories. A critic told Brahms that his first Symphony sounded like Beethoven 9 . Brahms replied that any damn fool could see that . But your suggestion that all composers borrowed from others reminded me of the very famous line from Isaac Newton ‘ if I saw further it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants
I enjoyed this very much. It reminded me of a couple of stories. A critic told Brahms that his first Symphony sounded like Beethoven 9 . Brahms replied that any damn fool could see that . But your suggestion that all composers borrowed from others reminded me of the very famous line from Isaac Newton ‘ if I saw further it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants