1. 15 Oct



    It is easy to confuse the autobiography of reception with the autobiography of creation, to imagine that the composer (or writer, or painter) simply put in the same feeling that we later took out. This is not how art works, but part of its beauty and cunning is to make us *believe* that this is how it works.
    — Wendy Lesser, Music for Silenced Voices (Shostakovich and his Fifteen Quartets), p. 145 (emphasis in the original)
     
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