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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.
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.
The symphony is a short (about 20 minutes) experimental work in one movement; within this movement are four sections, the last of which includes a chorus.In a marked departure from his First Symphony, Shostakovich composed his Second in a gestural, geometric "music without emotional structure" manner, with the intent of reflecting speech patterns and physical movements in a neo-realistic style.
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
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]
Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) Symphony No ...
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich.It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) by the State Jazz Orchestra.
The concert during the Leningrad siege was commemorated in the 1997 film The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin [11] and featured in the documentary Leningrad and the Orchestra that defied Hitler, [12] broadcast on BBC Two on 2 January 2016. [13] Earlier radio broadcasts by the BBC on the same subject include Witness [14] and Newshour ...