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Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material.In January 1936, halfway through this period, Pravda—under direct orders from Joseph Stalin [1] —published an editorial "Muddle Instead of Music" that denounced the composer and targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated. It briefly was nicknamed the "Stalingrad Symphony" following the first performance outside the Soviet Union in 1944 ...
The holograph sketches and score, as well as a photocopy of the latter authorized by Shostakovich in the 1960s are held in his family archives in Moscow. [10] The sketch, which is damaged by two horizontal folds [11] and includes sketches for the Symphony No. 4, [10] is complete on a single sheet of 30-staff score paper, while the score is on 4 pages of 36-staff paper.
Excerpts from Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 were added with permission from the composer upon the film's restoration in the 1960s. [71] One of the film's cues is based on music from Vincenzo Bellini's Norma. [70] 42 Five Fragments: Small orchestra 1935 Originally assigned Op. 43. [72] 43 Symphony No. 4 in C minor Orchestra 1935–1936
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).
Overseeing the project is Maxim Shostakovich, Irina Shostakovich, and Manushir Yakubov, president of the Russian Shostakovich Society. They've published quite a bit so far including all 15 symphonies (both in full score and two piano reductions), 15 string quartets, Lady Macbeth, the complete score to Kozintsev's New Babylon, and much more.
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941–1975. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3979-5. Hulme, Derek C. (2010). Dmitri Shostakovich: The First Hundred Years and Beyond. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810872646. Khentova, Sofia (1985). Шостакович.
Particularly, the premiere of Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" (1962), which had provoked enormous disapproval among the Soviet leadership of the Communist Party (the symphony's song text denounces the Soviet anti-Semitism of the time), was probably the main reason why Shostakovich had not considered publishing his satirical cantata. [4]