Dmitry Shostakovich About Himself And His Times
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Dmitry Shostakovich About Himself And His Times
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Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Dmitry Shostakovich About Himself And His Times written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Composers categories.
Dmitry Shostakovich About Himself And His Times
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Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Dmitry Shostakovich About Himself And His Times written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shostakovich And His World
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Author : Laurel E. Fay
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Shostakovich And His World written by Laurel E. Fay and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Music categories.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.
Dmitry Shostakovich
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Author : Pauline Fairclough
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Dmitry Shostakovich written by Pauline Fairclough and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Shostakovich
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Author : Eric Roseberry
language : en
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Release Date : 1982
Shostakovich written by Eric Roseberry and has been published by Hippocrene Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Music categories.
Much still remains to be discovered about Shostakovich the man. The recent defection to the West of his son Maxim, the highly esteemed conductor, adds to the personal enigma of a great composer whose official allegiance to Soviet Russia was never in doubt but whose music seems to speak a more ambiguous language. At last his music, life and times can now be viewed as a whole, and a book for the non-specialist reader attempting a preliminary survey of the ground based on available evidence is to be welcomed. Unquestionably Shostakovich, who died in August 1975, is one of the greatest composers of the century, and the central achievement of his universally admired fifteen symphonies and string quartets is a unique phenomenon in twentieth century music. Eric Roseberry's pioneering book, based on an extensive knowledge of the music and a panorama of available sources of information, both English and Russian, attempts to place this achievement in its social, political and cultural context. It draws on a wide variety of pictorial and documentary material ranging from literature, art and cinema to the family archives and letters and reminiscences of those who knew the composer.
Shostakovich
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Author : Brian Morton
language : en
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-20
Shostakovich written by Brian Morton and has been published by Haus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Music categories.
A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975. Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony at the age of nineteen, then he soon embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist and composer. His early avant-gardism resulted in the triumph of his 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Though at first highly praised by Stalin, Shostakovich would later suffer from a complex and brutalizing relationship with the Soviet dictator and the governments that followed him. Despite this persecution, his Seventh Symphony was embraced as a potent symbol of Russian resistance to the invading Nazi army in both the USSR and the West. Though his later years were marked by ill health, his rate of composition remained prolific. His music became increasingly beloved as he established himself as the most popular composer of serious music in the middle of the twentieth century.
The Early Film Music Of Dmitry Shostakovich
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Author : Joan Titus
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-15
The Early Film Music Of Dmitry Shostakovich written by Joan Titus and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Music categories.
In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate the role of the film composer. In The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich, author Joan Titus examines the relationship between musical narration, audience, filmmaker, and composer in six of Shostakovich's early film scores, from 1928 through 1936. Titus engages with the construct of Soviet intelligibility, the filmmaking and scoring processes, and the cultural politics of scoring Soviet film music, asking how listeners hear and see Shostakovich. The discussions of the scores are enriched by the composer's own writing on film music, along with archival materials and recently discovered musical manuscripts that illuminate the collaborative processes of the film teams, studios, and composer. The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich commingles film/media studies, musicology, and Russian studies , and is sure to be of interest to a wide audience including those in music studies, film/media scholars, and Slavicists.
Shostakovich
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Author : Ivan Martynov
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Shostakovich written by Ivan Martynov and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Music categories.
A comprehensive biography of the twentieth-century Russian composer, exploring his life, music, and legacy—by a noted musicologist who knew him personally. Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich is universally renowned as one of the most important figures of twentieth-century classical music. In Shostakovich: The Man and His Work, Ivan Martynov presents a rich and compelling biography of this pioneering legend. Martynov draws on extensive research, including interviews and conversations with Shostakovich himself, as well as his own expertise in the field of musicology, to shed light on the man behind the music.
Dimitri Shostakovich The Life And Background Of A Soviet Composer
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Author : Victor Ilyich Seroff
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Dimitri Shostakovich The Life And Background Of A Soviet Composer written by Victor Ilyich Seroff and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Louder Than Bombs
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Author : Ed Vulliamy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-04-08
Louder Than Bombs written by Ed Vulliamy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist, offers a testimony of his lifelong passion for music. Vulliamy’s reporting has taken him around the world to cover the Bosnian war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of Communism, the Iraq wars of 1991 and 2003 onward, narco violence in Mexico, and more, places where he confronted stories of violence, suffering, and injustice. Through it all, Vulliamy has turned to music not only as a reprieve but also as a means to understand and express the complicated emotions that follow. Describing the artists, songs, and concerts that most influenced him, Vulliamy brings together the two largest threads of his life—music and war. Louder Than Bombs covers some of the most important musical milestones of the past fifty years, from Jimi Hendrix playing “Machine Gun” at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan in Paris under siege in 2015. Vulliamy was present for many of these historic moments, and with him as our guide, we see them afresh, along the way meeting musicians like B. B. King, Graham Nash, Patti Smith, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, and Bob Dylan. Vulliamy peppers the book with short vignettes—which he dubs 7" singles—recounting some of his happiest memories from a lifetime with music. Whether he’s working as an extra in the Vienna State Opera’s production of Aida, buying blues records in Chicago, or drinking coffee with Joan Baez, music is never far from his mind. As Vulliamy discovers, when horror is unspeakable, when words seem to fail us, we can turn to music for expression and comfort, or for rage and pain. Poignant and sensitively told, Louder Than Bombs is an unforgettable record of a life bursting with music.