“What do you think of Puccini?
[ Britten: "I think his operas are dreadful." ]
No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.”

—  Dmitri Shostakovich

Quoted in Lord Harewood The Tongs and the Bones (1981) p. 133.

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Russian composer and pianist 1906–1975

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