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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
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.
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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 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]
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Waiting with Shostakovich was his friend, the musicologist and arts critic Ivan Sollertinsky. Weinberg played for them a piano reduction of his Symphony No. 1, to which Shostakovich replied with a few appreciative comments. [53] The meeting established a friendship between the composers that endured until Shostakovich's death. [54]