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Shostakovich in 1942. 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 Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 had its Leningrad première on 9 August 1942 during the Second World War, while the city was under siege by the Nazi German forces. Shostakovich had intended the piece to be premièred by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra , but because of the siege that group was evacuated from the city, as was the ...
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]
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 ...
Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) in C major (Op. 60, Leningrad) by Dmitri Shostakovich, c. 1939–40 Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) in C major (Op. 105) by Jean Sibelius, 1924 Symphony No. 7 (Simpson) by Robert Simpson, 1977
Symphony No. 7 in C major Orchestra ... the citizens of Leningrad". Shostakovich's suite was the first of a five-part collaborative revue produced by the Song and ...
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