"What are they saying about me now?" the bewildered composer seems to think. While he was alive Shostakovich endured humiliation after humiliation for sticking to his own artistic and moral ideals, many of which seem incongruous even to his own colleagues at the time. It is sad that after his death people continue to write silly things about him.

You will read many of such silly things here, and the idea of this website is to provide a resource for those who, like Shostakovich did when the article "Muddle Instead Of Music" was first published, want to know what the press have said about 20th Century's greatest musical genius.

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