The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue. (Dmitri Shostakovich)

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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