I should liken one who invents melodies to a noble racehorse, and a mere contrapuntist to a hired post-hack."
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
Contemporaneously with his pupilage under Hummel, he studied the theory of music with Simon Sechter, an eminent contrapuntist.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris
Similarly, his polyphonic style is easily intelligible to the trained contrapuntist"-and more to the same effect, Jadassohn is here only expressing what every competent musician knows.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight