I’ve had an interesting musical idea: essentially a musical autobiography, which I’ve referred to as a “lifesong”. Think of it as a really long leitmotif. Such a piece would capture the essence of a composer’s life, would be started as soon as a composer felt capable of undertaking such a project, and would be continuously maintained until the composer either died, in which case it should be concluded by another composer or left alone depending on the circumstances of the death, or the composer anticipated nothing more from life – that is, the composer’s purpose has been fulfilled and the composer has nothing of significance left to complete. It would include annotations detailing the life events that correspond to events in the musical score. It would not be “published” in the tradition sense until the composer’s death, but it could, and indeed should, be made available as it’s being constructed.
Why am I posting this? Because I’m ready to begin writing my own.

Update: Yay, another nonoriginal idea. Reinvention is talent screaming out for background.