Alexander Goehr
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Alexander Goehr's cottage in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Sandy, as he's known, guides Sara around his composing room, from an old writing desk fashioned out of a square piano, to Chinese bells and pictures of Schoenberg among the objects filling the walls.
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