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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.
Symphony No. 9 most commonly refers to: Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) in D minor (Op. 125, Choral ) by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1822–24 Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák) in E minor (Op. 95, B. 178, From the New World ) by Antonín Dvořák, 1893
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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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
Dmitri Shostakovich The Three Fantastic Dances (Russian: Три фантастических танца , romanized: Tri fantasticheskikh tantsa ), Op. 5 [ a ] are a set of three piano pieces composed by Dmitri Shostakovich while he was a student at the Petrograd Conservatory .
At the time the Festive Overture was composed, Shostakovich was engaged with the Bolshoi Theatre as a musical consultant. [2] According to Lev Lebedinsky, the commission resulted from an impromptu visit to the composer's apartment by Vassili Nebolsin, who came to express the Bolshoi's urgent need of a celebratory work on short notice. [3]
Shostakovich considered this work his most "Mussorgskian" symphony. [9] He wrote the Eleventh in a simple, direct manner. According to Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich allegedly told him that the symphony was "about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over." [10] [full citation needed]