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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Also known as Shostakovich, Shosty, Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Dmitrij Šostakovič, Dmitri Dmitrievitch Chostakovitch, Dimitri Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Dmitriii Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

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Dmitri Shostakovich was a Soviet composer, pianist, and politician born in Saint Petersburg in 1906. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and was a member of the Union of Soviet Composers and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His notable works include Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 10, and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. He also worked as a choreographer and jazz musician.

Shostakovich received the Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, and Order of the October Revolution. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academy of Arts of the GDR. He died of heart failure in Moscow in 1975 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. His son was Maxim Shostakovich.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1906
Died
1975
Works
421

Top works

  • קונצרט סימפוני מס' 3.
  • Perepiska
  • Testimony
  • Russian symphony
  • Sonata no. 1, op. 12

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Film & TV

Sound · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) was a Soviet composer. He was regarded throughout his life as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

Known for

  • Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable — Self (archive footage)2019
  • Легенды музыки — Self (archive footage)2015
  • A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich — Self2007
  • The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin — (archival footage)1997
  • Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola1981
  • Sons of the Fatherland — (Music)Passacaglia: Andante. Violin Concerto #11969
  • The Magic Beam — Self (archive footage)1963
  • Концерт-вальс1941

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1906
Active to
1975
classicalcomposerfilm composermodern classicaloperapianist

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,143,014
Total plays
13,843,380

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Classicalrussiancontemporary classicalmodern classicalcomposer

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906, (St Petersburg, Russia) – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he received a number of accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dmitri+Shostakovich">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The missing memristor found

    · 2008 · cited 10,640x

  2. Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

    · 2009 · cited 3,958x

  3. The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes

    · 2003 · cited 3,758x

  4. Memristive devices for computing

    · 2012 · cited 3,581x

  5. Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit

    · 2010 · cited 3,571x

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Quotes

  • “I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.”
  • “There can be no music without ideology. The old composers, whether they knew it or not, were upholding a political theory. Most of them, of course, were bolstering the rule of the upper classes. Only Beethoven was a forerunner of the revolutionary movement. If you read his letters, you will see how often he wrote to his friends that he wished to give new ideas to the public and rouse it to revolt against its masters.”
  • “What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.”
  • “If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
  • “I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible, and if I don't succeed I consider it's my own fault.”
  • “A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”

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Official website

Издательство "Дмитрий Шостакович" (DSCH)

Издательство "Дмитрий Шостакович" (DSCH). Новое собрание сочинений Д.Д. Шостаковича в 150 томах. Издания. Страницы жизни Д.Д. Шостаковича. Музей-квартира Д.Д. Шостаковича.

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Dmitri Shostakovich, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The united The/Shostakovich (Orchestral setting by Charles O 'Connell. English text by Harold J. Rome)

The united The/Shostakovich (Orchestral setting by Charles O 'Connell. English text by Harold J. Rome)

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Encyclopedic overview

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. His 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was initially a success but later condemned by the Soviet government, putting his career at risk. In 1948, his work was denounced under the Zhdanov Doctrine, with professional consequences lasting several years. Even after his censure was rescinded in 1956, performances of his music were occasionally subject to state interventions, as with his Thirteenth Symphony (1962). Nevertheless, Shostakovich was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death), as well as chairman of the RSFSR Union of Composers (1960–1968). Over the course of his career, he earned several important awards, including the Order of Lenin, from the Soviet government.

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