The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR ...
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Shostakovich described the Eighth Symphony as a poem of suffering. In public he called it 'an attempt to reflect the terrible tragedy of war'.
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, was written in three days (12–14 July 1960). Contents. 1 Composition and performances ...
Composed: 1943. Length: 65 minutes. Orchestration: 4 flutes (3rd and 4th = piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, ...
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It is a powerful anti-war statement, composed in the summer of 1943 following the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and concurrently with the Battle of ...
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8. Shostakovich sustained a quiet resistance against the brutal oppression of the Soviet Union under Stalin, burying his objections ...
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Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony is structurally one of the most challenging works in the repertoire. It's five movements, unlike the typical four of most ...