Nearly an interview with Galina Ustvolskaya, 1995

'Frau, Frau, Frau!‘ she interrupts Suslin.

Crestfallen, he looks at her: what shall he say? – Her name is, bless her eyes, GALINA!'

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Galina Ustvolskaya: ‘Sind Sie mir nicht böse!’ (very nearly an interview)

Twenty years ago, Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) passed away. As a composer she uncompromisingly followed her own path and never conformed to the socialist realist style the Soviet apparatchiks imp…

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