Dmitri shostakovich music style
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Dmitri Shostakovich was born in Russia in 1906. He grew up in a musical family, and his own musical gifts manifested themselves in early childhood, nourished by piano lessons from his mother. He began composing in 1915, notably piano pieces, and in the autumn of 1919, entered the prestigious Petrograd Conservatory, where the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov was still strong in the person of the Conservatory’s director, Alexander Glazunov. There, Shostakovich studied piano, harmony, fugue, counterpoint, music history, orchestration, and composition with professors such as Maximilian Steinberg, Alexandra Rozanova, Nikolay Sokolov, and Leonid Nikolayev.
In 1923, Shostakovich became a piano accompanist for silent films, a job that created ties with dance, theatre, and cinema in the feverish cultural scene that characterized Moscow and Leningrad in the late 1920s. In 1925, the year he completed his first symphony (which, embraced by many Western conductors in 1926, brought him international renown), he met Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who would become his patron and who would introduce h
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906–1975)
"Shostakovich" redirects here. For other uses, see Shostakovich (disambiguation).
Dmitri Shostakovich | |
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Shostakovich in 1942 | |
| Born | (1906-09-25)25 September 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | 9 August 1975(1975-08-09) (aged 68) Moscow, Soviet Union |
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| Works | List of compositions |
| Spouses | Nina Varzar (m. 1932; died 1954)Margarita Kainova (m. 1956; div. 1959)Irina Supinskaya (m. 1962) |
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich[a][b] (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist[1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relations
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Biography
Other musicians have seen worse atrocities. But the most gifted composer to spend almost his entire life within a totalitarian system was Dmitri Shostakovich. It was left to him to bear witness to the corruption and cruelty of his age, and its many more subtle privations. Remarkably, he did so not through overt polemic but through satire, a sensitive choice of poetic references and a renewal of so-called ‘absolute music’ in his symphonies and his chamber music. Working under a censorious and often capricious Soviet regime, Shostakovich was required to write music that would please Party officials. By the same token, anything deemed unsuitable for the popular masses would have to be kept under wraps. The truth is more complex, however. Shostakovich’s beginnings were progressive. He was was brought up in the enlightened city of St Petersburg, where his main teacher was the composer Alexander Glazunov. His astonishingly accomplished First Symphony (1924–25) won him instant fame. His subsequent pieces betray a debt to his modern contemporaries Hindemith and Stravinsky. Russ
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