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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 60

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 60, “Leningrad” Born: September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg Died: August 9, 1975, in Moscow Work composed: 1941 First performance: March 5, 1942, in Kuibyshev, USSR; Samuil Samosud conducting the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra

Written in 1941 when the Soviet composer was 35 years old

The Evolution of the Xylophone Through the Symphonies of

7 Shostakovich remained at the Leningrad Conservatory where he focused on the completion his composition studies After another recuperative period in the summer of 1924, Shostakovich began work on his Symphony No 1 He also took his first job as a cinema pianist, working at the Bright Reel Cinema for 100 rubles a month

RUSSIAN, SOVIET & POST-SOVIET SYMPHONIES

Lovro von Matacic/NHK Symphony Orchestra (rec 1969) ( + Symphony No 9) ALTUS ALT 129 (c 2000) Howard Mitchell/National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D C ( + Symphony No 5, Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 and Age of Gold: Ballet Suite) MCA CLASSICS DOUBLE DECKER MCAD2-9823B (2 CDs) (1990)

SYMPHONIES NOS 8 AND 10 BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: A STUDY OF

entire symphony in piano score and serving perhaps as a private record of the work These documents support Shostakovichs claim to thorough mental preparation but also occasionally point to changes between any such mental formulation and the symphonies finished forms In the Eighth Symphony drafts, two different variants of the second

SHOSTAKOVICH SUITE ON VERSES OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

symphony, and, in fact, at the very end of his life, he told his son Maxim that he considered the suite to be his sixteenth symphony Although the orchestration is remarkably spare, even gaunt, it powerfully underlines the inherent starkness of the music Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975, before the orchestral version of this

Symphony No 5

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