What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.
Dmitri ShostakovichMusic is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment โ and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.
Dmitri Shostakovich