To me he seemed like a trapped man, whose only
wish was to be left alone, to the peace of his own art and to the tragic destiny to which
he, like most of his countrymen, has been forced to resign himself.
Nicholas Nabokov on meeting Shostakovich in 1949 in New
YorkSource: N. Nabokov, Old Friends and New
Music, London: Little, Brown, 1951 (Note: The Boston printing of the same year does
not include this quote.) |
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Dmitri Dmitrievich
Shostakovich, composer
born St. Petersburg, 1906
died Moscow, 1975
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