Music of Uzbekistan - Composers in The Western Classical Tradition

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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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here where to love at all’s to be a politician, as to love a poem
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