Marc Mouries<address@hidden> writes:
This is intellectually interesting but the question is not "who
deserves to create good music?" but rather "who wants to listen to
music made by someone that does not practice?" and who wants to listen
to music played by a computer? Sure many times, nowadays, the
rendition of a computer playing is quite good but who cares? Art
conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus
should be played by human.
Uh, you never heard of the concept of an "actor" or "play", I suppose?
Emotions don't need to exist at the sender's side in order to be
conveyed to a receiver.
And anyway, for most of the music I hear, I am more interested in the
emotions of the composer rather than the performer.
There is hardly something more aggravating than a romanticizing
performer distracting from good Bach, for example.