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Author : Allan Benedict Ho
Release : 1998
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Shostakovich Reconsidered by : Allan Benedict Ho
Download or read book Shostakovich Reconsidered written by Allan Benedict Ho. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shostakovich Reconsidered Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov systematically address all of the accusations levelled at Testimony and Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich's amanuensis, amassing an enormous amount of material about Shostakovich and his position in Soviet society and burying forever the picture of Shostakovich as a willing participant in the communist charade.
Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Release : 2005-07-01
Genre : Composers
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Book Synopsis Testimony by : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Download or read book Testimony written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich. This book was released on 2005-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia - but Shostakovich, fearing reprisals, stipulated that the book should not appear until after his death. Ever since its publication in 1979 it has been the subject of controversy, some suggesting that Volkov invented parts of it, but most affirming that it revealed a profoundly ambivalent Shostakovich which the world had never seen before - his life at once triumphant and tragic. Either way, it remains indispensable to an understanding of Shostakovich's life and work. Testimony is intense and fiercely ironic, both plain-spoken and outspoken.
Author : Julian Barnes
Release : 2016-05-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Noise of Time by : Julian Barnes
Download or read book The Noise of Time written by Julian Barnes. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. • “Brilliant…. As elegantly constructed as a concerto.” —NPR 1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has suddenly denounced the young composer’s latest opera. Certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, his daughter—all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948, and finally bullied into joining the Party in 1960. All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music.
Author : Ian MacDonald
Release : 2006
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The New Shostakovich by : Ian MacDonald
Download or read book The New Shostakovich written by Ian MacDonald. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the posthumous publication in 1979 of alleged memoirs by Shostakovich, the controversy about the composer and his music has escalated. This book presents the case for the dissident view, arguing that the meaning of the composer's music cannot be appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he lived through under Soviet Communism.
