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Analysis of the Creative Process
The Concentrated Flow of Creativity
The thinking process may well be compared to the growth of a tree.
Because, once the tone creator perceives a perfect, fundamental musical idea in his mind on the level of the harmony like the inner structure of a seed he creates, from the level of this pure, utmost condensed cognition, the living tree of his music work, right to its leaves and blossoms, in a lively continuum of thought.
And with great self-discipline he will ensure that the natural, concentrated flow of his creativity is not interrupted; otherwise the creation would immediately disintegrate just as a tree begins to dry up from the very moment its supply of nourishment is cut off.
“In my instrumental music, too,
I am always aware of the whole.”
Beethoven