A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at the death
of composer Edward MacDowell. She played the elegy for the pianist Josef
Hoffman, then asked his opinion. "Well, it's quite nice," he replied, "but
don't you think it would be better if..." "If what?" asked the
composer. "If... if you had died and MacDowell had written the elegy?"
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