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Shostakovich and Sviatoslav Richter played the Ninth Symphony in a four-hand arrangement for musicians and cultural officials in early September 1945. The premiere, conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky, took place on 3 November 1945 in the opening concert of the 25th season of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, sharing the program with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
Symphony No. 9 (Schuman) (Le fosse Ardeatine) by William Schuman, 1968; Symphony No. 9 (Sessions) by Roger Sessions, 1978; Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) in E-flat major (Op. 70) by Dmitri Shostakovich, 1945; Symphony No. 9 (Simpson) by Robert Simpson, 1985–87; Symphony No. 9 (Vaughan Williams) in E minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1956–57
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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.
Dedicated to Maxim Shostakovich. [168] 103 Symphony No. 11 in G minor "The Year 1905" Orchestra 1957 Along with the Russian revolutionary songs utilized in the symphony, Shostakovich also quoted an extract from Sviridov's operetta Sparks. [169] Three Choruses for the Fortieth Anniversary of the October Revolution: SATB chorus and piano 1957
The Piano form of the symphony was published, in fact being the only symphony part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales to be published during the composer's lifetime. From this, the orchestration was done by Mykhailo Verykivsky , however Margarita Pavlovna Prâšnikova rediscovered the original score of all 3.
The curse of the ninth superstition originated in the late-Romantic period of classical music. [1]According to Arnold Schoenberg, the superstition began with Gustav Mahler, who, after writing his Eighth Symphony, wrote Das Lied von der Erde, which, while structurally a symphony, was able to be disguised as a song cycle, each movement being a setting of a poem for soloist and orchestra. [2]
Tahiti Trot (Russian: Таити трот, romanized: Taiti trot) (or Tea for Two), [1] Op. 16, is an arrangement for symphony orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich of the song "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans. It was composed in 1927 and resulted from a bet between the composer and the score's dedicatee, Nicolai Malko.