More from Dmitri Shostakovich

  1. 'Beethoven was a revolutionary. If you read his letters, you will realize how much he wished to arouse the public by his new musical ideas.'
  2. Here is music turned deliberately inside out in order that nothing will be reminiscent of classical opera, or have anything in common with …
  3. 'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'
  4. Pornophony.
  5. 'Every composer should be able to play his own compositions at the piano.'
  6. Not since the time of Berlioz has a symphonic composer created such a stir. In far-away America, great conductors vie with each other for t…
  7. 'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'
  8. He did not write about this war and that revolution, but about war and revolution in general, the state of mind and emotion, not facts.

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