Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Born: 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 1975, Moscow, Russia
Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 1 during the summer of 1925 and died exactly 50 years and 14 symphonies later. He had one of the most difficult careers ever endured by an artist, a life tormented by suffocating political repression, foreign invasion, and personal tragedy. The essence of Shostakovich’s mature musical language – a sardonic wit, a Mahler-like fusion of the tragic and the commonplace, and an assured handling of the orchestra – were present in his music from the beginning.
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