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  2. Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Curse of the ninth - Wikipedia

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    The curse of the ninth superstition originated in the late-Romantic period of classical music. [1]According to Arnold Schoenberg, the superstition began with Gustav Mahler, who, after writing his Eighth Symphony, wrote Das Lied von der Erde, which, while structurally a symphony, was able to be disguised as a song cycle, each movement being a setting of a poem for soloist and orchestra. [2]

  5. List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia

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    Lost. Shostakovich used a theme from this work in "Immortality" from the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti. [3] Hymn to Freedom: Piano 1915–1916 Lost [3] Taras Bulba (based on the eponymous story by Nikolai Gogol) Opera (instrumentation unknown) 1915–1916 Lost [3] Revolutionary Symphony: Orchestra 1917–April 1918 Partially lost [3]

  6. Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    The Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135, by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969, and was premiered later that year. It is a work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings of poems by four authors.

  7. Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. The Nose (opera) - Wikipedia

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    The opera was written between 1927 and 1928. The libretto is by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis. Shostakovich stated it was a satire on the times of Alexander I. [1] The plot concerns a Saint Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.

  9. Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    While Shostakovich could speak like this only in a very narrow circle of friends, it did not stop him from hinting to the Soviet Press about a hidden agenda for the Seventh Symphony. [22] He insisted, for instance, that the "central place" of the first movement was not the "invasion section" (the part journalists usually asked about first).