Conclusion

 

As one can see there were a number of ways composers became composers; either through private lessons, universities, cathedrals schools, and orphanages. However, the greatest source of compositional pedagogy came from treatises. Treatises affected directly and indirectly how private instructors, universities, cathedral schools, and orphanages taught their music students. Though these treatises contained information that was in practice before their publication, these treatises codified the practices and made them obtainable to any novice composer.  

 

We may never know exactly how these treatises effected individual's, such as Bach or Handle, to choose to become a composers. We don't know how much of an effect the cathedral schools or up bringing had on future composers. What we do know are the pedagogical facts of music education, and how any child, young adult, or established composer learned their trait and improved on the medium of music.