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Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material.In January 1936, halfway through this period, Pravda—under direct orders from Joseph Stalin [1] —published an editorial "Muddle Instead of Music" that denounced the composer and targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Symphony No. 8 in C minor Orchestra 1943 Dedicated to Yevgeny Mravinsky. [109] Unofficially nicknamed the "Stalingrad Symphony" by the American press after its United States premiere [110] [111] An incomplete 125-measure portion of an alternate draft of the second movement, which includes piano, was published in Volume 8 of the DSCH New ...
The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated. It briefly was nicknamed the "Stalingrad Symphony" following the first performance outside the Soviet Union in 1944 ...
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Op. 43 (1935-36) Symphony No. 8, Op. 65 (1943) Alice ...
The holograph sketches and score, as well as a photocopy of the latter authorized by Shostakovich in the 1960s are held in his family archives in Moscow. [10] The sketch, which is damaged by two horizontal folds [11] and includes sketches for the Symphony No. 4, [10] is complete on a single sheet of 30-staff score paper, while the score is on 4 pages of 36-staff paper.
: "The Eighth Symphony was initially interpreted by Soviet critics as another war symphony, and it even bore the subtitle "Stalingrad" for a short period." Notes by a Duke University musicologist: "His Eighth Symphony, written in the aftermath of Stalin’s defeat of the Nazis, was given the name 'Stalingrad Symphony' by the Soviet government ...
Concerto Grosso No. 1 for two violins, prepared piano, harpsichord and 21 strings (1977) Moz-Art à la Haydn for two violins and string orchestra (1977) Concerto Grosso No. 1 for flute, oboe, harpsichord, prepared piano and string orchestra (1988 version) Concerto Grosso No. 2 for violin, cello and triple symphony orchestra (1981–1982)