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Author | : Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780571220502 |
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This edition draws on many new writings about Shostakovich, providing both a more detailed and focused image of his life, and a wider view of his cultural background. A particular aspect of Shostakovich which is revealed is his sardonic and witty sense of humour, displayed in many of his letters to close friends.
Author | : Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0571261159 |
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Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer, drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Elizabeth Wilson sheds light on the composer's creative process and his working life in music, and examines the enormous and enduring influence that Shostakovich has had on Soviet musical life.'The one indispensable book about the composer.' New York Times
Author | : Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2006-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691128863 |
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"This new edition, produced to coincide with the centenary of Shostakovich's birth, draws on many new writings on the composer. In doing so, it provides both a more detailed and focused image of Shostakovich's life, and a wider view of his cultural background."--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Laurel E. Fay |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195182514 |
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"Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. Alone among his artistic peers, he survived successive Stalinist cultural purges and won the Stalin Prize five times, yet in 1948 he was dismissed from his conservatory teaching positions, and many of his works were banned from performance. He prudently censored himself, in one case putting aside a work based on Jewish folk poems. Under later regimes he balanced a career as a model Soviet - holding government positions and acting as an international ambassador - with his unflagging artistic ambitions."--Jacket.
Author | : Solomon Volkov |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062987852 |
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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 | : Pauline Fairclough |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789141907 |
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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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Vivian Perlis |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252070785 |
Download Charles Ives Remembered Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through their reminiscences, Ives's relatives, friends, colleagues, and associates reveal aspects of his life, character, and personality, as well as his musical activities.
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.