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What Were Dmitri Shostakovich's Views About His Homeland? Until 1979 The Soviet Union's Official Composer Was Considered A Staunch Supporter Of Joseph Stalin And His Successors. This Assumption Was Then Challenged With The Publication Of Testimony, Ostensibly The Composer's Memoirs As Told To Solomon Volkov, In Which Shostakovich Emerged As A Dissident. Serious Reservations Persist To This Day About The Integrity And Validity Of Testimony, But Volkov Did Reveal A New Shostakovich. Now, In The First Important Biographical Work On Shostakovich To Take Testimony Into Account, Ian Macdonald Dispels Some Of The Mystery Surrounding The Composer And His Music. Declaring That Volkov Painted A Realistic Picture Of Dmitri Shostakovich: It Just Isn't A Genuine One, Macdonald Describes The Ways In Which The Soviet Government Used Shostakovich And Other Artists For Propaganda Purposes And Examines The Only Authentic Record Of Shostakovich's Personal And Political Beliefs That The Composer Left Behind: His Music. Macdonald Argues That Attempts To Grasp The Compositions Of Shostakovich As Pure Music Are Doomed To Failure Because The Composer's Art Can Be Understood Only Within The Political-cultu

Author

Ian MacDonald

Publisher

Boston: Northeastern University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555530891

Subjects

Music, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14