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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 ...
Op. 10: Symphony No. 1 in F minor (1923–1925) Op. 14: Symphony No. 2 in B major, To October, for mixed chorus and orchestra (1927) Op. 20: Symphony No. 3 in E ♭ major, The First of May, for mixed chorus and orchestra (1929) Op. 43: Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1935–1936) Op. 47: Symphony No. 5 in D minor (1937) Op. 54: Symphony No. 6 in B ...
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 .
The work is filled with quotations of other pieces by Shostakovich: the first movement quotes his Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5; the second movement uses a Jewish theme first used by Shostakovich in his Piano Trio No. 2; the third movement quotes the Cello Concerto No. 1; and the fourth movement quotes the 19th century revolutionary song ...
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.
Symphony No. 8 (2000) Symphony No. 9 (2000) Various: Glyndebourne Festival Opera: a Gala Evening (Arthaus DVD, 1992) London Symphony Orchestra: All recordings produced by LSO Live label, the in-house record label for the London Symphony Orchestra. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 (2006) Symphony No. 2 (2005)
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.
No personal malice towards Shostakovich was intended, Grinberg said; he suggested that the Stalin Prize should go to his Symphony No. 5 instead. [61] Professional nepotism and privileged seclusion from the general musical audience, Grinberg additionally suggested, resulted in the prize committee's unsatisfactory choices of candidates. [62]