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Leningrad - Siege and Symphony (Paperback)
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Leningrad - Siege and Symphony (Paperback)
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Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its
birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance
to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year
earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already
many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all,
starvation. The assembled musicians - scrounged from frontline
units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra's 100
players had survived - were so hungry, many feared they'd be too
weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of
the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired
provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. Setting the
composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic
canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror
that preceded it, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial
and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.
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