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	Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich died of lung cancer on August 9, 1975 and was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
		Shostakovich's works are broadly tonal and in the Romantic tradition, but with elements of atonality and chromaticism.
		Shostakovich's music shows the influence of many of the composers he most admired: Bach in his fugues and passacaglias; Beethoven in the late quartets; Mahler in the symphonies and Berg in his use of musical codes and quotations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3465 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович) (September 25, 1906 — August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period.
		Shostakovich's family seems to have been politically liberal and tolerant (one of his uncles was a Bolshevik, but the family also sheltered far-right extremists).
		Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, which like the Tenth Symphony incorporates a raft of codes and quotations.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dmitri_shostakovich (2309 words)

	DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shostakovich's current high reputation rests on the assumption of rebelliousness, but much of the music is among the 20th century's finest regardless of its extramusical context.
		Shostakovich wrote some music which could be called banal, but for a spare somberness built out of simple materials, he is respected by many.
		Dmitri Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975 and was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/DIMITRI+SHOSTAKOVICH (1110 words)

	Russian Revelations
		Dimitri's music is distinguished by its energetic rhythms and rich melodies, which are a reflection of Romani (Gypsy) tunes of Eastern Europe.
		Shostakovich's first opera, The Nose, expressed a lack of traditional key, which was a popular technique of Western composer's such as German Paul Hindemith and the Austrian Alban Berg.
		Shostakovich's 5th and 6th symphonies were well received, both by the party and public, and his 7th symphony, Leningrad Symphony (1942), composed during the World War II siege against Leningrad, became a popular success.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/Shostakovich1 (750 words)

	Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language.
		Katerina Ismailova remains the principal opera of Shostakovich, with the early opera The Nose, based on Gogol, and the ballet The Golden Age.
		Shostakovich wrote an early concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, and a second piano concerto, a vehicle for his son Maxim, in 1957.
	www.naxos.com /composer/shostako.htm (493 words)

	Tribute to Shostakovich by MMA: life and work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dimitri Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg in 25 of September 1906.
		Shostakovich falls in love with Berg's, Bartok's, Krenek's and the Group of Six's works, that were widely diffused in USSR during the NEP (New Economic Politics).
		In 1953 Yevgeny Mravinsky inaugurated the tenth symphony of Shostakovich, emblem of the "defrost" (death of Stalin).
	neptuno.fis.ua.pt /~mma/dds/life.htm (1314 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Music
		Shostakovich publicly admitted to his sins and by rendering unto Caesar, he avoided the Siberian labor camps for his family and himself.
		Shostakovich managed to weather the political storms and during the last decade of his life reached a plateau beyond ideological criticism.
		Though Dimitri Shostakovich managed to survive the attacks upon him by Stalin himself in 1936 and Stalin’s goons in the infamous Zhdanov Decree of 1948, the post-Stalin era saw the composer struggling with a more insidious challenge to his integrity.
	www.fuguemasters.com /dsch.html (4928 words)

	Dancing around the world - Dimitri Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shostakovich was a Russian composer who wrote great music during an extremely difficult period of history.
		Shostakovich tried to compose music that would not offend government officials, but he was publicly criticized by the government nonetheless.
		The TSO opens the concert with a cut version of Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture.” An overture is a piece of music that is an introduction to some work that follows.
	www.tsolive.org /daw/Composers/Shostakovich.html (310 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich
		When Shostakovich died in 1975, he was lauded as one of the leading composers of the 20th century.
		Both the Shostakovich interpreters coming to Southern California next week are conspicuous by their absence in the Weinstein film.
		Rostropovich, to whom Shostakovich dedicated his two cello concertos, has called "'Testimony" "basically…true." He claims firsthand knowledge of his friend and compatriot's anti-Soviet tendencies, and agrees that the evidence is in the music.
	www.smsymphony.org /sms9899/shostakovich.html (2255 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Violin and Cello Concertos - A Good-Music-Guide Review
		Dmitri Shostakovich was not an openly brave man. Nor a happy one.
		Shostakovich wrote 15 symphonies and and 15 string quartets, and they rank amongst the greatest of the twentieth century.
		This is the world-premier recording with Oistrakh, and Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting the New York Philharmonic.
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/037_shostakovich.htm (746 words)

	The Dimitri Shostakovich Biography Page on Classic Cat
		Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович) (September 25, 1906 –; August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period.
		Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Shostakovich was a child prodigy as both a pianist and composer.
		The nature of their relationship is far from clear: Rostropovich described it as "tender" and Ustvolskaya claimed in a 1995 interview that she rejected a proposal from him in the fifties.
	www.classiccat.com /shostakovich_d/biography.htm (2402 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shostakovich composed the Quartet in a three-day period in 1960.
		At the time, the "official" story behind the Quartet was that Shostakovich had been so shocked and distressed upon witnessing the destruction in Dresden that he composed the piece to express his horror of Fascism.
		The piece is dominated by the repeated use of Shostakovich's musical "signature" of D, E flat, C, and B. This recurring motif both binds the piece together and gives it an oppressive, almost inescapable quality.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/dimitrishostakovich.html (640 words)

	Shostakovich Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Speaking of Shostakovich: "An archive of media articles" collected and presented by C. Loh.
		Shostakovich Reconsidered by Allan B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov.
		Shostakovich: Symphony No13, Op113 with Masur, Leiferkus, and a special reading by Yevtushenko of his poem, The Loss.
	www.sharpcheddar.com /shostakovich.shtml (371 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		Dimitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op.
		Dimitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Op.
		Dimitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Op.
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/review.php?ID_review=2929 (1484 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich, Composer
		Dimitri's parents, both musicians, noticed his musical talent early.
		At the age of 9, Shostakovich began studying piano from his mother.
		Shostakovich chose to combine the dissonant techniques heard in the music outside Russia into his own music and was severely criticized for doing so.
	www.brottmusic.com /educationmain/Dimitri%20Shostakovich.htm (292 words)

	ARTIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Soviet system knew they had a genius on their hands in the 1925, when he emerged as a boy wonder with his dazzling First Symphony, and they milked him for all he was worth.
		Shostakovich's instinct was to write daring, questioning yet accessible music for a daring, questioning, liberal society - exactly the opposite of what Stalin's brutal regime required.
		He survived by writing the Fifth Symphony, whose 'victorious' finale pleased the party officials but was recognised by the audience as an ironic reference to the 'celebration' of the regime they were forced to make.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/BioInfo.cfm?Biography__Performer=SHOS (234 words)

	Arts Music Composition Composers S Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Dimitri Shostakovich Mp3 Page on Classic Cat - Directory of mp3s that have been made available by their performing artists.
		Dmitri Shostakovich: The Composer And His Work - Focus on Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, with extracts in RealAudio and an imagined "screenplay" to be read while listening to the music.
		Shostakovich Museum - General introduction to the composer and a discussion of the Testimony issue.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/S/Shostakovich,_Dmitri_Dmitriyevich (804 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich
		Later, Shostakovich wrote about his first quartet of 1938 that, while composing, he tried to imagine images of his childhood, naive and cheerful atmospheres, that match with Spring.
		In 1979, posthumously, the memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) were published by the Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov, who had smuggled the manuscript abroad before he emigrated to the United States in 1976.
		Ian MacDonald's book The New Shostakovich, published in 1990, did not contradict the general message of the memoirs, neither did Shostakovich's letters from the years 1941 to 1971, published in 1995 by Isaak Glikman.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo14/shostakovich.htm (960 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Shostakovichiana
		From the inaugural declaration of the Shostakovich Association
		Testimonies concerning Shostakovich's attitudes to the Soviet regime
		Shostakovich's alleged interrogation by the NKVD in 1937
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/dmitri.html (193 words)

	The Dimitri Shostakovich Link Page on Classic Cat
		Dimitri Shostakovich - Find A Grave listing with biographical material, youthful photograph, and pictures of his grave with virtual memorial and related cemetery information.
		Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) - Biographical sketch, caricature, and summaries of his stage works and his orchestral, choral and vocal, chamber, and piano music with recommended Naxos recordings.
		Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitriyevich - Biography noting studies and influences, political struggles, and evolution of style under Soviet Communism with works list from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
	www.classiccat.net /shostakovich_d/links.htm (616 words)

	A valedictory performance by the Miami String Quartet, reviewed by Lawrence Budmen
		Dimitri Shostakovich dedicated his String Quartet No 8 in C minor to 'the victims of fascist oppression'.
		While he was the leading composer of the Soviet revolution, Shostakovich suffered under the rule of the Communist apparatchiks (particularly during the Stalinist era).
		Shostakovich would return and eventually be the recipient of the Lenin Medal.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/06/shostakovich1.htm (517 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the greatest modern Soviet composers, Dimitri Shostakovich once stated, “There can be no music without ideology.” Because of their political connotations, his works were controversial in both Communist and non-Communist countries.
		Nikola's Church (1299) has valuable frescoes; the Monastery of Archangel Michael and the Church of St. Dimitri both date from the 14th century, and the castle was built in the 14th century by a national hero, Marko Kraljevic.
		Among the composers who dedicated works to him were Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Dimitri Shostakovich, who wrote both of his violin concertos for Oistrakh.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277046?tocId=9277046 (616 words)

	The Film Music of Shostakovich Volume 2: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews April 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Golden Mountains (1931) was Dimitri Shostakovich's third film score.
		At a more personal level, the story involves Piotr, an impoverished peasant who is set-up by the factory bosses to break the impending strike before he realises he must support his fellow workers.
		Arresting, exciting and accessible, this is first class Shostakovich film music performed with great style and attack.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2004/Apr04/shostakovich_film_music_2.html (594 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1; Cello Concerto No. 1: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Oistrakh penetrates Shostakovich's first violin concerto in a way nobody else does, the sheer depth, the excitement, the desolation, and it's decoming a cliche with Oistrakh but THE DEMONIC INTENSITY, it could almost have been written for him, which of course it was.
		The only choice with Shostakovich's first is which of the many Oistrakh recordings do you go for.
		Shostakovich dedicated the First Cello Concerto to Rostropovich, his pupil and friend, and he almost seems to breathe the music.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000268ZW (720 words)

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		Son: Maxim Shostakovich, born in 1937, currently lives in the USA and works as a conductor of many orchestras worldwide.
		I feel the best way to get into Shostakovich is slowly, and to this end I have decided to list a few works and recordings that I feel would be a good introduction to the works of Shostakovich.
		Shostakovich insisted the book be published after his death with good reason considering the material in it paints him in a light that the Soviet authorities of the day wouldn't have exactly been thrilled with.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/shostakovich/afs-faq (2690 words)

	Blue Lake Public Radio - Classics in the Classroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dimitri Shostakovich was born into a musical family, although he didn't begin to study music until the age of 9.
		Dimitri actually played piano for some movies to help earn money for his family.
		Waltzes: The waltz is a form of music that has been around for a very long time and Shostakovich made this type of dance music into a very fun piece.
	www.bluelake.org /CITC/shosta.html (306 words)

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