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The same way how music schools struggle to (or don't intend to) teach students how to become great musicians.

Music schools only (or can only) teach students the compositions of other great musicians.

False. I had a good friend who was doing her DMA and she was a shockingly good violinist. I also went to an orchestra concert that was all (doctoral) student compositions. They were quite excellent; I never would have guessed that they were anything short of top-notch professional.

I know where you're coming from, but in the entrepreneurship context I don't see any role of music education in your examples since the only objective measure of the greatness of a music is its commercial success or cultural impact or both.

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