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Happy birthday, Vladimir Horowitz!

I was watching, last week, a lovely video of Horowitz performing a Bach transcription. Lovely not only because of the playing, but because of a tiny remark in the final second of the clip.

'That was beautiful,' says a listener.

'I didn't compose it,' says Horowitz.











 
 
 

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