Dmitry Shostakovich

Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789141900

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Dmitry Shostakovich by Pauline Fairclough Pdf

Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century—a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to succumbing to the whirlwind of political repression of his times and remained under political surveillance all his life, despite the many privileges and awards heaped upon him in old age. Through it all, Shostakovich showed a remarkable ability to work with, rather than against, prevailing ideological demands, and it was this quality that ensured both his survival and his musical posterity. Pauline Fairclough’s absorbing new biography offers a vivid portrait of Shostakovich. Featuring quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as rarely seen photographs, Fairclough’s book provides fresh insight into the music and life of a composer whose legacy, above all, was to have written some of the greatest and most cherished music of the last century.

Author : Joan Titus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199315161

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The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich by Joan Titus Pdf

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate the role of the film composer. In The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich, author Joan Titus examines the relationship between musical narration, audience, filmmaker, and composer in six of Shostakovich's early film scores, from 1928 through 1936. Titus engages with the construct of Soviet intelligibility, the filmmaking and scoring processes, and the cultural politics of scoring Soviet film music, asking how listeners hear and see Shostakovich. The discussions of the scores are enriched by the composer's own writing on film music, along with archival materials and recently discovered musical manuscripts that illuminate the collaborative processes of the film teams, studios, and composer. The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich commingles film/media studies, musicology, and Russian studies , and is sure to be of interest to a wide audience including those in music studies, film/media scholars, and Slavicists.

Author : Roy Blokker,Robert Dearling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007897336

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The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Symphonies by Roy Blokker,Robert Dearling Pdf

Bespreking van de verschillende symphonieën van de Russische componist (1906-1975).

Author : Solomon Volkov
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062987853

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Testimony by Solomon Volkov Pdf

The acclaimed classical composer chronicles his life and work in twentieth-century Soviet Russia with the help of a distinguished musicologist. Since the time of his death, Dmitri Shostakovich’s place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers has become more commanding and more celebrated, while his musical legacy, with all its wonderfully varied richness, is performed with increasing frequency throughout the world. This seemingly endless surge of interest can be attributed, at least in part, to Testimony, the powerful memoirs the ailing compose dictated to the young Russian musicology Solomon Volkov. When Testimony was first published in the West in 1979, it became an international bestseller, and was called the “book of the year” by The Times in London. The Guardian heralded Testimony as “the most influential music book of the 20th century.” Testimony offers a chance to reckon with the life and work of one of history’s most lauded musical geniuses—as a man and an artist.

Author : David Abramovich Rabinovich
Publisher : London, Lawrence
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Musicians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042436522

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Dmitry Shostakovich by David Abramovich Rabinovich Pdf

Author : Sarah Reichardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351571357

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Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich by Sarah Reichardt Pdf

Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within the Soviet State. While much ink has been spilled, very little work has attempted to define how Shostakovich's music has remained so arresting not only to those within the Soviet culture, but also to Western audiences - even though such audiences are often largely ignorant of the compositional context or even the biography of the composer. This book offers a useful corrective: setting aside biographically grounded and traditional analytical modes of explication, Reichardt uncovers and explores the musical ambiguities of four of the composer‘s middle string quartets, especially those ambiguities located in moments of rupture within the musical structure. The music is constantly collapsing, reversing, inverting and denying its own structural imperatives. Reichardt argues that such confrontation of the musical language with itself, though perhaps interpretable as Shostakovich's own unique version of double-speak, also poignantly articulates the fractured state of a more general form of modern subjectivity. Reichardt employs the framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis to offer a cogent explanation of this connection between disruptive musical process and modern subjectivity. The ruptures of Shostakovich's music become symptoms of the pathologies at the core of modern subjectivity. These symptoms, in turn, relate to the Lacanian concept of the real, which is the empty kernel around which the modern subject constructs reality. This framework proves invaluable in developing a powerful, original hermeneutic understanding of the music. Read through the lens of the real, the riddles written into the quartets reveal the arbitrary and contingent state of the musical subject's constructed reality, reflecting pathologies ende

Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich,Isaak Glikman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0571209823

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Story of a Friendship by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich,Isaak Glikman Pdf

Dmitry Shostakovich wrote regularly to his close friend Isaak Glikman during their 40-year relationship from the early 1930s to the composer's death in 1975. This work is a collection of 288 of these letters starting in 1941, when both correspondents were evacuated from Leningrad."

Author : John Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857712172

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Dmitri Shostakovich by John Riley Pdf

Of all the major Soviet composers who worked in the cinema, the most prominent was Dmitri Shostakovich who, in addition to over a hundred works for the stage and concert hall, wrote scores for almost forty films. Yet despite his reputation this work, when not completely overlooked, has been poorly judged by the same criteria as his other music. Likewise, while much attention has been paid to Soviet film, the crucial role played by the scores is all too often forgotten. This, the first book in English to look at Shostakovich's cinema career, discusses every film he scored, looking at the films themselves, tracing their relationship to the changing concerns and policies of the Soviet state and examining how the music works in context. John Riley also gives a fascinating account of the composer's life. This highly readable book will be welcomed equally by devotees of the composer; those interested in Soviet culture and cinema; and general film music enthusiasts.

Author : Ivan Martynov
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781504022811

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Shostakovich by Ivan Martynov Pdf

Shostakovich: The Man and His Work is a rich and compelling biography of one of the most famous composers of all time. Author Ivan Martynov brings together extensive research, including interviews and conversations with Shostakovich himself, to shed light on the man behind the music. This edition was translated from Russian by T. Guralsky and includes a list of musical works.

Author : Victor Ilyich Seroff
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447497127

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Dimitri Shostakovich - The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer by Victor Ilyich Seroff Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Laurel E. Fay
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691232195

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Shostakovich and His World by Laurel E. Fay Pdf

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.

Author : Sofia Moshevich
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773525815

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Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist by Sofia Moshevich Pdf

Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906–1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed examination of Shoshtakovich the pianist within the context of his life and work as a composer. She traces his musical roots, piano studies, repertoire, and concert career through his correspondence with family and friends and his own and his contemporaries' memoirs, using material never before available in English. This biographical narrative is interwoven with analyses of Shoshtakovich's piano and chamber works, demonstrating how he interpreted his own music. For the first time, Shoshtakovich's own recordings are used as primary sources to discover what made his playing unique and to dispel commonly held myths about his style of interpretation. His recorded performances are analysed in detail, specifically his tempos, phrasing, dynamics, pedal, and tonal production. Some unpublished variants of musical texts are included and examples of his interpretations are provided and compared to various editions of his published scores.

Author : Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Sollertinskiĭ,Li︠u︡dmila Mikheeva
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015035663874

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Pages from the Life of Dmitri Shostakovich by Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Sollertinskiĭ,Li︠u︡dmila Mikheeva Pdf

Author : Derek C. Hulme
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810872653

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Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue by Derek C. Hulme Pdf

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, as well as the first major Soviet composer. In the fourth edition of Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue: The First Hundred Years and Beyond, Derek C. Hulme names and describes all known musical compositions of the Russian composer. More than 175 major works are annotated and discussed, including such comprehensive details as titles and subtitles, dates of composition, instrumentation, and duration; information on dedications and premieres; arrangements by the composer and others; publication details; notes on bibliographical references and the location of the autograph score; and comprehensive chronological lists of vinyl, compact disc, and visual recordings. The entries are presented chronologically and by opus number, while indexes of names and compositions provide full accessibility. Several appendixes supplement the volume, guiding readers to further information in published sources and providing information on the composer's film, radio, television, and theatre productions; his abandoned projects and obscure works; and his recordings, including box sets and special USSR recordings. An appendix also discusses the monogram DSCH, a musical motif based on his name that permeates his compositions. This new edition also includes a comprehensive chronological chart of Shostakovich's works and historical events and several plates of memorabilia.

Author : David Clampitt
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580463225

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Intimate Voices: Shostakovich to the avant-garde. Dmitri Shostakovich : the string quartets by David Clampitt Pdf

Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.