Dmitri Shostakovich

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

Khovanshchina (, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was almost finished in piano score when the composer died in 1881, but the orchestration was almost entirely lacking.

Soviet, American and Russian conductor and pianist

musical composition

song cycle composed by Modest Mussorgsky

Soviet polymath (1902–1944)

soviet editorial in Pravda

work by Robert Schumann

Suite by Levon Atovmyan based on music by Dmitri Shostakovich

Peninsula in Antarctica

novel by Julian Barnes

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