Secondly, we cannot pretend technical progress not to have happened. Beethoven had different conditions for composing than musicians in the Middle Ages or the Bronze Age.

And ours are different from Beethoven’s. We have different instruments and sounds at our proposal, and different sources of inspiration, too.

Moreover, music does not only consist of masterpieces. On the contrary, amateur musicians, bands in garages, experimenters with sound, designers of ringing tones and producers of advertising jingles are pleased to have support.