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Well, you see, THAT is the problem

When music is dependent on its text or its non-musical background to such an extent, so much the worse for the music itself. Unfortunately, this kind of dependence occurs far too often in far too many of Shostakovitch's works. And as I've said before, this situation has given rise to a certain class of listeners who consider themselves Shostakovitch experts just because they've been initiated into the secret non-musical background (culled from the pages of "Testimony" and other crap musical literature) of many of Shostakovitch's works. Music should rise or fall on the basis of its own merit - not because of some story about some evil Kommissar.


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