‘mine wasn’t the archetypal musician’s tortured childhood, playing nothing but scales and etudes

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Hildur Guðnadóttir is scrolling through her phone. Whereas most people use the device to collect photographs and notes alongside contact numbers, the Icelandic composer records snippets of music. Thes