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<p><p>for This Authoritative Post-cold-war Biography Of Shostakovich's Illustrious But Turbulent Career Under Soviet Rule, Laurel E. Fay Has Gone Back To Primary Documents&#58; Shostakovich's Many Letters, Concert Programs And Reviews, Newspaper Articles, And Diaries Of His Contemporaries. An Indefatigable Worker, He Wrote His Arresting Music Despite Deprivations During The Nazi Invasion And Constant Surveillance Under Stalin's Regime. <br> Shostakovich's Life Is A Fascinating Example Of The Paradoxes Of Living As An Artist Under Totalitarian Rule. In August 1942, His Seventh Symphony, Written As A Protest Against Fascism, Was Performed In Nazi-besieged Leningrad By The City's Surviving Musicians, And Was Triumphantly Broadcast To The German Troops, Who Had Been Bombarded Beforehand To Silence Them. 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 Sovi

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Author

Laurel Fay, Laurel E. Fay

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195134384

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Music, History

Rating

4.05 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14