Interesting discussion, but with great works I don't believe that we can ever get sufficiently close that only tiny details are left. Even after Newton had solved many of the mysteries of the universe, he said he still felt like a child playing on the seashore.
I do not mean to offend, but neither am I prepared to acknowledge the impotence of the past to inform and to benefit the present and future. No one emerges from the womb knowing how to practice an art. The knowledge is transmitted, and transmuted, from generation to generation.
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Who today plays Bach in ignorance of Glenn Gould? Who plays Rachmaninov in ignorance of Vladimir Ashkenazy? Certain extraordinary individuals reveal to us essentially new things -- and even if we strive not to imitate them, we are all changed by their revelations, forever.
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