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.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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.
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Chopins Ghost
When I was about 23 years of age I had a dream about Chopin. I visited him in his parlor. HE was half corpse, purple black and rotting flesh, frail. Performing something divine on the piano. Sounds that emanated out of the instrument were from another world of beauty. I was so captured by the mystery and his presence that I wrote this the next day. more
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Ice Cavern
Accurate, wondrous, cinematic description of an Ice Cavern on pianomore
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