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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.
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 ...
Excerpts from Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 were added with permission from the composer upon the film's restoration in the 1960s. [71] One of the film's cues is based on music from Vincenzo Bellini's Norma. [70] 42 Five Fragments: Small orchestra 1935 Originally assigned Op. 43. [72] 43 Symphony No. 4 in C minor Orchestra 1935–1936
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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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.
Programme note for the Symphony for performance by the London Shostakovich Orchestra; Fay, Laurel (2000). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513438-9. Geiger, Friedrich, notes for Teldec 21467: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Lenningrad"; New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur. Gibbs, Christopher H ...
The American broadcast premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini on July 19, 1942. This was followed by the American concert premiere played at Tanglewood by the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra, a student ensemble, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky on August 16.