For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most … - Dmitri Shostakovich

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For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most people are average, neither black nor white. They're gray. A dirty shade of gray. And it's in that vague gray middle ground that the fundamental conflicts of our age take place.

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About Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist. Many of his works mark the epochs of Soviet history, or explore his own position as an artist in a communist state. Since his death there has been much controversy as to his private political views.

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Native Name: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович
Alternative Names: Shostakovich Shosty Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich Dmitrij Šostakovič Dmitri Dmitrievitch Chostakovitch Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Dmitriii Dmitrievich Shostakovich
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

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