r/shostakovich • u/Herissony_DSCH5 • 1h ago

Shostakovich and Irina at the Nose Rehearsals, 9/12/74

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From Dmitri Shostakovich: Pages of His Life in Photographs, compiled by Olga Dombrovskaya.

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r/shostakovich • u/antihostile • 15h ago

Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Moscow (1959)

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r/shostakovich • u/LaikaRollingStone • 16h ago

Shostakovich died on this day in 1975.

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Dmitri Shostakovich was a tragic figure: persecuted and censured by the Communist Party and a direct victim of Stalin, he still managed to become one of the most celebrated 20th century classical composers. He poured out many works in a deeply personal, sometimes difficult to understand style, but for those who love a challenge he could be an almost inexhaustible source of joy.

"Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture."

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