- Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich [a] [b] (25 September [O S 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist [1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich | Biography, Music, Works, Symphonies, Facts . . .
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75) was a Russian composer, renowned particularly for his 15 symphonies, numerous chamber works, and concerti, many of them written under the pressures of government-imposed standards of Soviet art
- Dmitri Shostakovich - World History Encyclopedia
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Russian composer of operas, ballets, concertos, string quartets, and 15 symphonies Shostakovich was frequently denounced by the repressive Soviet state, but in some periods, he also gained official favour
- Shostakovich: The composer who was almost purged - BBC
Forty years after the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, Clemency Burton-Hill looks back at his difficult career in the USSR – and some surprising facts you might not know
- Shostakovich: the genius who outsmarted Stalin and redefined music
Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical-music com
- Dmitri Shostakovich | Home
Dmitri Shostakovich’s New Collected Works in 150 volumes will make the whole of Shostakovich’s (1906-1975) vast compositional heritage accessible to professional musicians, performers and researchers A collection of his compositions was never published during the composer’s life
- Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life - Classic FM
Shostakovich was the most brilliantly inventive of all Soviet composers – and the most hotly debated Yet who was the real Shostakovich? Was he the composer of the Piano Concerto No 2’s delectable slow movement?
- Composer Profile: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Shostakovich spent his life not only composing music but trying to survive as an artist under Soviet totalitarianism His First Symphony, composed as his graduation piece from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1925, catapulted him to international fame
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