shostakovich in English

noun

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75), Russian composer, creator of "The Golden Age" and "Lady Macbeth of the District of Mzensk"; family name

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1. "Shostakovich: Revolutionary life, revolutionary legacy".

2. Any view of Shostakovich is seriously incomplete without knowledge of these recordings.

3. Shostakovich recorded the two concertos in stereo in Moscow for Melodiya.

4. It was also at this time that Shostakovich composed the first of his string quartets.

5. Shostakovich Cello Sonata / Schubert "Arpeggione" Sonata, Daniel Shafran, Lydia Pecherskaya 2016

6. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Shostakovich worked at TRAM, a proletarian youth theatre.

7. The Romanian composer and Webern disciple Philip Gershkovich called Shostakovich "a hack in a trance".

8. It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

9. It has just invited audience sponsorship for this season's revival of the Shostakovich opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk.

10. They said, 'Why did Shostakovich write an optimistic symphony at the beginning of the war and a tragic one now?

11. In 1954, Shostakovich wrote the Festive Overture, opus 96; it was used as the theme music for the 1980 Summer Olympics.

12. The First Symphony of obscure Russian composer Gavriil Popov, and Brahmsian juvenilia from Shostakovich., Audiophile Classical Music Reviews, Enjoy the Music.com Review Magazine

13. In 1965 Shostakovich raised his voice in defense of poet Joseph Brodsky, who was sentenced to five years of exile and hard labor.

14. Steinberg tried to guide Shostakovich on the path of the great Russian composers, but was disappointed to see him 'wasting' his talent and imitating Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev.

15. Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, accused Shostakovich and other composers (such as Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian) of writing inappropriate and formalist music.

16. In the third movement, they do come together into something that sounds Shostakovich-like -- a big sweep of forward moving melody, ending with an amazing climactic sequence of repeated chords posed Batteringly against the orchestral sweep

17. In 1959, Shostakovich appeared on stage in Moscow at the end of a concert performance of his Fifth Symphony, congratulating Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for their performance (part of a concert tour of the Soviet Union).