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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 .
Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) in D minor (Op. 47) by Dmitri Shostakovich, 1937; Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) in E-flat major (Op. 82) by Jean Sibelius, 1915–19; Symphony No. 5 (Simpson) by Robert Simpson, 1972; Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) in E minor (Op. 64) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1888; Symphony No. 5 (Ustvolskaya) (Amen) by Galina ...
Shostakovich told the press that the symphony was inspired by Mayakovsky's poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" and that it would set verses by Suleyman Stalsky and Zhambyl Zhabayuly. [93] Gerard McBurney said that Shostakovich may never have worked on this score, despite his reports to the contrary given across a span of over two years.
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.
David Fanning (born 1955) is a professor of music at the University of Manchester.He is an expert on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Nielsen and Soviet music. [1] He is the author and editor of a number of books, collaborating with wife, Michelle Assay, on a book about Mieczysław Weinberg.
The Symphony was written during the summer of 1929, much of it while on a six-week cruise along the Black Sea coast. [5] Like the Second Symphony, it is a single-movement choral symphony which lasts around 25 to 30 minutes. Although the music is continuous, however, it falls into four unequal sections, the first two substantial and the last two ...
All-Star Orchestra is an orchestral music project created by Gerard Schwarz, former music director and conductor laureate of Seattle Symphony.It is a television and DVD project, filmed by 18 high definition video cameras without an audience for PBS, the Khan Academy, educators, students, "and enthusiasts."
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).