List of Russian Composers

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“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
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“My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
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“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
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