Dmitri Shostakovich

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Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975)

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Dmitri Shostakovich attended this production in London just before his death. Source: Internet

Dmitri Shostakovich composed two. Source: Internet

Dmitri Shostakovich provided an epic score, its motifs including an (increasingly ironic) trumpet fanfare for Lear, and a five-bar "Call to Death" marking each character's demise. Source: Internet

Examples include Dmitri Shostakovich 's Poem of the Motherland, Op. 47 (1947) and The Sun Shines over Our Motherland, Op. 90 (1952), and three works by Prokofiev, Zdravitsa! Source: Internet

In a phone interview with Cara Lieurance, Tetzlaff touches on his concert schedule and the works on his program, which includes "uplifting" sonatas in A major by Beethoven and Franck, and the "despairing" Sonata Op 134 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Source: Internet

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich had to reach an "accommodation with the regime or abandon his vocation" before going on to write his Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Symphonies. Source: Internet

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