Dmitry Shostakovich (Critical Lives)
ISBN-13:
9781789141276
ISBN-10:
1789141273
Edition:
1
Author:
Pauline Fairclough
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Music
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ISBN-13:
9781789141276
ISBN-10:
1789141273
Edition:
1
Author:
Pauline Fairclough
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Music
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Dmitry Shostakovich (Critical Lives) (ISBN-13: 9781789141276 and ISBN-10: 1789141273), written by authors
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Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century—a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to succumbing to the whirlwind of political repression of his times and remained under political surveillance all his life, despite the many privileges and awards heaped upon him in old age. Through it all, Shostakovich showed a remarkable ability to work with, rather than against, prevailing ideological demands, and it was this quality that ensured both his survival and his musical posterity. Pauline Fairclough’s absorbing new biography offers a vivid portrait of Shostakovich. Featuring quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as rarely seen photographs, Fairclough’s book provides fresh insight into the music and life of a composer whose legacy, above all, was to have written some of the greatest and most cherished music of the last century.
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