Shostakovich was a bit of a rebel. He was writing music in Russia during a time when there were strict rules from Stalin's government as to what the music should sound like and Shostakovich found ...

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Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. After studying at music college, Shostakovich embarked on ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It was widely criticized in the Soviet Union for its “unrelieved gloom ...

Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program ...

Beyond virtuosic, the Israeli Inon Barnatan executed the pair with maniacal rapture. Dmitri Shostakovich was no stranger to program music, writing oodles of it (the artistic kind) for Comrade ...

Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work, drawing attention to a ‘remarkable example of fidelity to the traditions of musical classicism, and ...