Shostakovich Morton Brian
Shostakovich Morton Brian A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is widely considered to have been…
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Shostakovich Morton Brian
A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975.Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony at the age of nineteen, then he soon embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist and composer. Though at first highly praised by Stalin, Shostakovich would later suffer from a complex and brutalizing relationship with the Soviet dictator and the governments that followed him. His early avant-gardism resulted in the triumph of his 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Though his later years were Despite this persecution, his Seventh Symphony was embraced as a potent symbol of Russian resistance to the invading Nazi army in both the USSR and the West.