That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

String Quartets Nos. Complete Music for Piano. Each instrumental voice is typically assigned its own set of tempos.

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. His last work Epigrams for piano trio was completed on August 13 2012. (December 11 1908 – November 5 2012) was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.