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Aram Khachaturian: "Those were tragic days for me…"
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4. Aram Khachaturian: "Those were tragic days for me…"
Another Soviet composer who felt the wrath of the Russian establishment, Armenian Aram Khachaturian was vocal about how he was forced to write music to please the state rather than himself: "I was clouted on the head so unjustly. My repenting speech at the First Congress was insincere. I was crushed, destroyed. I seriously considered changing professions."
