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Disagreement With Drucker

 

Peter Drucker draws an untenable comparison between under-informed and unself-disciplined (i.e., nonmanagerial) entrepreneurs and composers of music. Mozart very successfully produced music entertainment within the patronage system of his day. Mendelssohn, even more of a prodigy than Mozart, was more successful. Neither was sloppy musically.

There is at best only a shade of truth in the idea that a composer -- necessarily highly individualistic and an entrepreneurial striver for personal recognition -- should or even could be blessed with any managerial talent to speak of, or should want to become successful as a producer/music director. Drucker wants us to believe that musical prodigies could be managerial successes if they weren't so blessed with music talent. This idea simply won't wash. I hope Drucker knows more about Oriental art than he does about music.