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Dmitry Shostakovich (Paperback)
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Dmitry Shostakovich (Paperback)
Series: Critical Lives
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Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the
twentieth century - a musician who adapted as no other to the
unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin
during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to the
whirlwind of political repression and he remained under political
surveillance all his life, despite the many privileges and awards
heaped upon him in old age. Yet Shostakovich had a remarkable
ability to work with, rather than against, prevailing ideological
demands, and it was this quality that ensured both his survival and
his posterity. Pauline Fairclough's absorbing new biography offers
a vivid portrait that goes well beyond the habitual cliches of
repression and suffering. Featuring quotations from previously
unpublished letters as well as rarely-seen photographs, Fairclough
provides a fresh insight into the music and life of a composer
whose legacy, above all, was to have written some of the greatest
and most cherished music of the last century.
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