Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Petersburg, and then I was put in two schools, a very brief stint in a school before I was put into the School of Jurisprudence.
to become a civil servant.
See, there was nothing to suggest that I would be a musician when I was a boy.
I was very susceptible to music, and I kept trying to write songs or make up songs for the family to sing.
But as Fanny said, you were no Mozart, Piotr.
I said, wasn't I always writing songs for the family to sing?
She said, yes, of course, but not good ones.
Was there any musicality in the family at all?
My mother, who could play the piano beautifully and sang very well,
And did she sing with you?
Yes, of course.
She sang my songs.
Yes, yes.
No, that came later.
There was a freed serf, in fact, the serfs in the process of being freed, who taught me music.
And you could never move from that plot.
And you owed everything to your master.
And if you tried to escape, you could be brought back and lashed.
No, but we did all right.
My father was quite well off at first when we were in Votkinsk.
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