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Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975. Family very liberal Age 13- entered St. Petersburg Conservatory Academically successful Suffered for lack of political enthusiasm Post Graduation - career as concert pianist and composer.

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Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975

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  1. Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 Family very liberal Age 13- entered St. Petersburg Conservatory Academically successful Suffered for lack of political enthusiasm Post Graduation - career as concert pianist and composer. Labeled a “Formalist” by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians - Formalism: “any art which used complex techniques and forms accessible only to the elite, rather than being simplified for ‘the people’“

  2. Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 • 1930’s- worked for a theatre company • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District • 1936-Series of attacks in Pravda • Muddle Instead of Music • No commission= no $$$ • Responded with Symphony No. 5

  3. Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 • 1936- “The Great Terror” • Symphonies=public • Chamber=private (experimental, expressive) • 1941-WW2 (St. Petersburg=Leningrad) • in Leningrad during siege • Began Symphony. No 7 “Leningrad” (heroic) • 1943- Moved to Moscow • 9th Symphony- Neoclassic parody

  4. Dmitri Shostakovich1906-1975 • Second Piano Trio • Dedicated to close friend Sollertinsky • Totentanz finale • 1948- Denounced again • Privileges taken away • Most works banned • Public repentance • 13 total symphonies • Late works show preoccupation of death

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