The answer is:
- No, if you expect a really unique piece of music full of phantasy and surprising ideas, a music which seems to have no model. Musical phantasy and ideas you have to have, you can't learn it, The feeling for the tones you are putting together must be already inside you - you have to activate though. Also a sense for the form of music is given and not really learnable. Of course you have to study a lot and write many many pieces, try out several music styles before you will be able to write a piece I am talking about.
- Yes, since many music of nowadays is learned. Even people without any or poor phantasy are able to write "music" if you use prefabricated or proven methods. You can learn everywhere techniques (composition systems, algorithms, computers aided composition etc. or develop your own system in a similar mode) and copy extended playing techniques (without ever touching that instrument). If you are not lazy, you can write a fascinating looking score of new music which could sound also not bad. But it could be that there is not a bit of music inside it and nobody will notice that - just another piece among many. Who cares.
