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Dmitri Shostakovich's birth name is Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitriyevich.
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Galina Shostakovich's birth name is Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich.
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London Shostakovich Orchestra was created in 1999.
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The cast of A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich - 2006 includes: Helga Landauer Dmitri Shostakovich as himself
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Dmitri Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975 at the age of 68.
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Dmitri Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975 at the age of 68.
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Dmitriy Shostakovich wrote his Symphony no. 13 ("Baby Yar") in B flat minor.
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Dmitri Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906 and died on August 9, 1975. Dmitri Shostakovich would have been 68 years old at the time of death or 108 years old today.
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Igor Stravinsky's birth name is Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich.
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Altovaya sonata- Dmitriy Shostakovich - 1981 is rated/received certificates of:
Argentina:Atp
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Shostakovich did not specifically write Albumstucke. The pieces included in the work are arrangements of existing Shostakovich works, including ballet and film compositions. K. Fortunatow is responsible for selecting, arranging, and compiling the pieces contained within Albumstucke.
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Dmitri Shostakovich has: Played himself in "Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Moscow" in 1959. Played himself in "The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin" in 1997. Played himself in "Cold War" in 1998. Played himself in "A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich" in 2006. Played himself in "BBC Proms" in 2013.
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Dmitri Shostakovich never suffered blindness or deafness. However, he suffered from a number of diseases which impacted his musical life. Chief among those was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), which caused weakness and paralysis most significantly in Shostakovich's right hand and arm. By 1958 (when Shostakovich was 52), the disease became noticeable especially when he played piano. In Shostakovich's later life, composing and performing grew extremely difficult.
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"Dmitri Shostakovich" was a Russian composer during the Soviet era.
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Dmitriy Shostakovich was born to Dmitriy Boleslavovich Shostakovich1 and Sofiya Vasilyevna Kokoulina.2 He had one elder sister, Mariya (born in 1903)3 and one younger sister, Zoya (born in 1908).4 Shostakovich later married Nina Vasilyevna Varzar,5 with whom he had two children: Galina (born in 1936) and Maksim (born in 1938).6 After Varzar's death, Shostakovich remarried with Margarita Kainova,7 whom he shortly divorced.8 He later married Irina Supinskaya.9 (Neither of these later marriages produced children.) Shostakovich's most famous grandchild is Dmitriy Maksimovich Shostakovich (Maksim's son),10 who is noted for having performed his grandfather's piano compositions under Maksim Shostakovich's baton.11
1 Elizabeth Wilson, "Childhood and Youth," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 3.
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7 307-8.
8 316-17.
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11 Dmitri Shostakovich, Concerto No. 1, Op. 35, Perf. Dmitri Shostakovich (Junior), I Musici de Montréal, Cond. Maxim Shostakovich, Chandos, 1992, CD.
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The cast of Stravinsky - 1965 includes: Julian Bream as himself Nicolas Nabokov as himself Vera Stravinsky as herself Igor Stravinsky as himself
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Dmitri Shostakovich is best known for his musical talents. He was a Russian composer, and also a famed pianist. He composed fifteen symphonies during his lifetime.
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The War Symphonies Shostakovich Against Stalin - 1997 is rated/received certificates of:
Germany:16
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In the West, there still exists debate about the political allegiances that Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich held during his life. After Shostakovich's death, author Solomon Volkov published Testimony, Shostakovich's memoirs, which scathingly criticized Communist political and musical authorities. However, the book's authenticity has been hotly debated, sparking in the West a decades-long controversy about Shostakovich's political allegiances: specifically, whether Shostakovich was a loyal Communist as he outwardly appeared (a view supported by Laurel E. Fay and Richard Taruskin), or whether he harbored dissenting sentiments (a view supported by Elizabeth Wilson and Ian MacDonald). Russian musicologists have largely dismissed this controversy, however, and most post-USSR books published about Shostakovich -- including those by Sofia Khentova, along with many primary sources like Isaak Glikman's commentary on Shostakovich's private letters -- acknowledge the composer as both a private and public dissenting voice.
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Many people have attempted to describe Shostakovich's religious convictions, although the information they offer is somewhat contradictory. He was baptized into the Russian Orthodox faith as an infant.1 Biographer Elizabeth Wilson recounts that, when asked this question, Shostakovich's son Maskim replied that the composer owned a crucifix as well as a religious postcard.2 However, in Shostakovich's much-debated memiors, Testimony, the composer describes himself as an atheist.3 On the other hand, in the account by Shostakovich's close friend Isaak Glikman of how the composer tried to excuse himself from joining the Communist Party, Shostakovich claimed to invoke his religious convictions.4 Another friend, Edison Denisov, described how late in Shostakovich's life, the composer would often mention the Ten Commandments.5 Still, Mark Lubotsky recorded that Shostakovich prefaced the premiere of the Symphony no. 14 by describing how did not believe in an afterlife.6 (It should be noted, however, that Shostakovich rarely revealed his true thoughts in public.)
1 Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 2-3.
2 Wilson 349.
3 Solomon Volkov, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, 25th Anniversard Edition, New York: Limelight Editions, 2004, 194.
4 Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and Isaak Glikman, Story of a Friendship, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, 91.
5 Wilson 490.
6 Wilson 471.
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The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (Shostakovich's contemporary and acquaintance) dedicated her 1958 poem "Music" (Mузыка) to him under his initials, D.D.S. (Д.Д.Ш.).
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As a child, Dmitriy Shostakovich studied at the Shidlovskaya School.1 After the Revolution, he briefly studied at the Stoyunina Gymnasium (also known by its official name, Gymnasium No. 13),2 and later the School of Labor No. 108, a secondary school.3 While he was still at the gymnasium,4 Shostakovich also began to study at the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Conservatory.5 Shostakovich began in 1919,6 and graduated from the composition faculty in 1926, with his Symphony no. 1.
1 Elizabeth Wilson, "Childhood and Youth," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006, 9.
2 D. D. Shostakovich, "Description of Life," in I. A. Bobykina, Dmitri Shostakovich in Letters and Documents, Moscow: Glinka Museum, 2000, in Wilson 15.
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4 Wilson 10.
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Dmitriy Shostakovich died August 9, 1975, in Moscow, Russia.
Source: Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second Ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 527-8.
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Dmitriy Shostakovich was born in Imperial Russia, in 1906, 11 years before Russia became part of the Soviet Union.
Source: Elizabeth Wilson, "Childhood and Youth," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006, 1.
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Igor Stravinsky was Russian, although he lived most of his life in Paris.
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Stravinsky composed Petrushka during they years 1910-1911.
The ballet debuted in 1911.
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Shostakovich lived his whole life during the 20th Century. His oeuvre is thus classified as 20th Century classical music. However, Shostakovich's compositions also often display an affinity with the Romantic classical music tradition, and in general his scores shy away from the extreme experimental nature characteristic of the 20th Century idiom, although towards the end of his life Shostakovich began to incorporate serialism into his music.
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Igor Stravinsky is a Russian composer. He was born in Oranienbaum (today the city is called Lomonosov).
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Igor Stravinsky lived in Russia, then he moved his family to France.
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