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Author | : Malcolm Hamrick Brown |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2005-08-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0253218233 |
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"The book . . . includes . . . valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's life under a totalitarian regime. . . . The 'Casebook' contributors compellingly warn of replacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simple inversion." —New York Times ". . . an important and readable collection. . . . It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims and scholarly practices in Testimony." —New York Review of Books A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews—many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union—to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.
Author | : Malcolm Hamrick Brown |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 025305625X |
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A collection of writings analyzing the controversial 1979 posthumous memoirs of the great Russian composer at their significance. In 1979, the alleged memoirs of legendary composer Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) were published as Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitry Shostakovich As Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov. Since its appearance, however, Testimony has been the focus of controversy in Shostakovich studies as doubts were raised concerning its authenticity and the role of its editor, Volkov, in creating the book. A Shostakovich Casebook presents twenty-five essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews—many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union—that review the “case” of Shostakovich. In addition to authoritatively reassessing Testimony’s genesis and reception, the authors in this book address issues of political influence on musical creativity and the role of the artist within a totalitarian society. Internationally known contributors include Richard Taruskin, Laurel E. Fay, and Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, the composer’s widow. This volume combines a balanced reconsideration of the Testimony controversy with an examination of what the controversy signifies for all music historians, performers, and thoughtful listeners. Praise for A Shostakovich Casebook “A major event . . . This Casebook is not only about Volkov’s Testimony, it is about music old and new in the 20th century, about the cultural legacy of one of that century’s most extravagant social experiments, and what we have to learn from them, not only what they ought to learn from us.” —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Author | : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-07-01 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780571227921 |
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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 | : Allan Benedict Ho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Ian MacDonald |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 184595064X |
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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.
Author | : William T. Vollmann |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2005-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143036599 |
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A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on human experience during wartime. Through interwoven narratives that paint a composite portrait of these two battling leviathans and the monstrous age they defined, Europe Central captures a chorus of voices both real and fictional— a young German who joins the SS to fight its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the Stalinist assaults upon his work and life.
Author | : Michael Kurtz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2007-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ) has achieved international acclaim for her unique musical oeuvre which draws on Eastern and Western musical traditions. This text places her life and the evolution of her work within the broader cultural and political context of the post-Stalin Soviet Union.
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Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 087910614X |
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This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. “Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music.” – New Grove Dictionary
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Publisher | : Ho and Feofanov |
Total Pages | : 326 |
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Author | : M.T. Anderson |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0763691003 |
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Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.