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“My career has been my whole life, and I have always searched. Earlier, I searched for sonorities, perhaps sometimes for effect; I loved the technical, virtuoso things; perhaps I tried more to play with passion. Later I came to understand that music is related to the other arts, to poetry and painting – to that big word, philosophy. Now I seek for the time of the composer, the fortunate man who had the idea; and I hear polyphony, which is always the most important. It is like the Alpinist on the mountain: there are several roads to the top.” (Emil Gilels)