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Shostakovich - A Coded Life in Music (Paperback, New edition)
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Shostakovich - A Coded Life in Music (Paperback, New edition)
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Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his
generation. Internationally esteemed, he 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 aged only nineteen and soon embarked on a
dual career as concert pianist and composer. His early
avant-gardism was to result in the triumph of his 1934 opera Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk. Though at first highly praised by Stalin,
Shostakovich would later suffer from a complex and brutalising
relationship with the Soviet dictator and the governments that
followed him. In spite of 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. Though his later
years were marked by ill health, his rate of composition remained
prolific. His music became increasingly popular with audiences as
he established himself as the most popular composer of serious art
music in the middle years of the twentieth century.
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