About working as a composer

It would be nice as a composer just use the short time we are given to write music. But sorry folks, I´m not sitting in with candle lights by a huge grand piano from 1856 writing with blue ink drinking red wine. To be a composer has to do with administration, networking and dead lines.

I met my dear college and friend Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen yesterday, and we talked about why we do this - writing music I mean. Do we write music so that the conductors have something to conduct, the musician something to play, and giving the audience a chanse to be seen? As a composer I think it is of great importance not to have to many illutions about which importance our work have for the society, as long it is important to one self. If you as a composer really belive in your music, it´s very important to learn to know how the mechanisms behind the "industry" called modern classical music work. You have to be a good craftsman, know a lot of people, openmindedly dig into the music history and have a huge portion of luck...