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The German avante-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen drew widespread criticism after the attack of the World Trade Centre with his comment that the attacks were ''the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos''. He went on to say, ''Minds achieving something in an act that we couldn't even dream of in music, people rehearsing like mad for 10 years, preparing fanatically for a concert, and then dying; just imagine what happened there. You have people who are that focused on a performance and then 5,000 people are dispatched to the afterlife, in a single moment. I couldn't do that. By comparison, we composers are nothing. Artists, too, sometimes try to go beyond the limits of what is feasible and conceivable, so that we wake up, so that we open ourselves to another world.'' He subsequently apologised for these remarks. However, is there an element of truth in them?
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