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The Symphony quotes Shostakovich's song Vozrozhdenije (Op. 46 No. 1, composed in 1936–37), most notably in the last movement; the song is a setting of a poem by Alexander Pushkin (find text and a translation here) that deals with the matter of rebirth.
Dedicated to Vishnevskaya. Shostakovich transposed the last song, "The Field Marshal", down to B ♭ minor in order to accommodate male singers with low registers. [181] 114 Katerina Izamailova, opera in four acts based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Leskov Voices, SATB chorus, brass band, and orchestra 1956–1963
Shostakovich's friend Isaac Glikman called this symphony "his most tragic work". [5] The work, like many of his symphonies, breaks some of the standard conventions of symphonic form and structure. Shostakovich clearly references themes, rhythms and harmonies from his previous symphonies, most notably Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 7. [6]
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 ...
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.
A quotation from Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture recurs throughout the first movement, while the last movement quotes from a song by Mikhail Glinka and from Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde. Critics have also detected in the symphony further quotations and allusions, from other composers as well as ...
The Five Fragments, Op. 42 is a suite for small orchestra composed on June 9, 1935, by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was the only work, apart from film music, that he composed that year. He approached it as preparatory work for the composition of the final version of his Symphony No. 4.
Vaughan Williams dedicated the symphony to Jean Sibelius.The musicologist J. P. E. Harper-Scott has called Sibelius "the influence of choice" among British symphonists in the years between the two World Wars, citing Walton's First Symphony, all seven of Bax's and the first five of Havergal Brian. [7]