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The Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1924–1925, and first performed in Leningrad [1] by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nicolai Malko on 12 May 1926. [2] Shostakovich wrote the work as his graduation piece at the Petrograd Conservatory , [ 1 ] completing it at the age of 19.
Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, nicknamed the Leningrad Symphony, was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara (then known as Kuybyshev) in December 1941, and premiered in that city on March 5, 1942.
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 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 ...
Of the original 40-member Leningrad Radio Orchestra, only 14 or 15 still lived in the city; the others had either starved to death or left to fight the enemy. [16] [17] [18] Shostakovich's symphony required an expanded orchestra of 100 players, meaning the remaining personnel were grossly insufficient. [18]
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The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1931 as the Leningrad Radio Orchestra. In 1953, it came under the umbrella of Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. Karl Eliasberg was its music director since 1942 and Aleksandr Dmitriyev has been since 1977.
The first American press report of the Symphony No. 7 emerged from the Romanul American on January 3, 1942, a Romanian-language newspaper, which stated that Shostakovich had recently composed a symphony "dedicated to the defenders of Leningrad"; [32] on January 24, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentioned it in an article about the siege. [33]