Dimitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, his reputation has increased since his death in 1975. He is now widely considered to be the last greatest classical symphonist. He wrote his First Symphony aged only nieteen and soon embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist and composer. His early avante-gardism was to result in the triumph of his 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. First praised as being the product of "the best tradt...
Dimitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, his reputation has increased since his death in 1975. He is now widely considered to be the last greatest classical symphonist.
He wrote his First Symphony aged only nieteen and soon embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist and composer. His early avante-gardism was to result in the triumph of his 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. First praised as being the product of "the best tradtions of Soviet culture", the opera was later denounced by Satalin as both "muddle" and "chaos".
Shostakovich fell from grace and for most of his life would suffer from a complex and at times brutalising relationship with both Stalin, through the years of the Great Terror, and the Soviet goverments that followed. He was to endure two official denunciations, in 1936 and again in 1948, both seriously affecting his status and wellbeing.
In spite of this persecution his Seventh Symphony, with its first movements composed in Leningrad, 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 compostition remained prolific, establishing himself as "the most popular composer of serious art music in the middle years of teh 20th century".
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