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....I must admit my ignorance (some obviously expect it)....and my interest is being mostly in his Quartets....never read a biography : my only info really is that BBC biography of the 7th (and very good that was)....but 2 things, the absolute incredible poverty of the DS family and his dreadful diet....and secondly that opera by Fleishman sounds really interesting, has anyone heard it's entirety...??
I had not heard of Fleishman before that programme. Might look him up. It can't have been much fun being bipolar under Soviet Communism [sic] - which I'm pretty certain Shostakovitch must have been - like Mahler, whose symphonies he modelled his own on, in particular.
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