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The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky .
DSCH is a musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting of the notes D, E-flat, C, B natural, or in German musical notation D, Es, C, H (pronounced as "De-Es-Ce-Ha"), thus standing for the composer's initials in German transliteration: D. Sch. (Dmitri Schostakowitsch).
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
Shostakovich was formally rehabilitated with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony in November 1937. Encouraged by "Muddle Instead of Music" and other slander, he simplified his music to suit the prescriptions of socialist realism. The Fifth was an official success; Party members who had attacked him before acknowledged that he had "seen his ...
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The key of C minor was, like most other minor keys, associated with the literary Sturm und Drang movement during the Classical period. But ever since Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, of 1808, C minor imparts a symphony in the key a character of heroic struggle.
One minute before the end of the 1st movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony, the solo violin plays a slow tune. This sounds like the tune in the two violins in Bartok's 1st quartet, 90 seconds before the end of the 2nd movement, immediately after the cello pizzicatos.
According to Nikolai Myaskovsky, one of the board's members, told Steinberg that Shostakovich's music and playing "drew near-unanimous protests" from the editors. By February 9, he reported that the board had "radically changed" their opinions and accepted the Three Fantastic Dances , Two Pieces for String Octet, and the First Symphony for ...