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Maxim Arnautov lived for ninety-two years, wrote twelve symphonies and music for dozens of films, received all possible awards - but gave almost no interviews and left no memoirs. His only opera was banned the day before its premiere. His music was performed in Europe, but kept silent in the USSR. He had no children - except those that no one knew about. The novel, in forty obituaries, restores the biography of a man who carefully hid it.