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		In September 1943, Shostakovich had played through the Eighth for his closest friend, the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky, in Moscow and was trying to get Sollertinsky established there as well, because the years of the war had enforced a separation that was difficult for both them.
		To Sollertinskyâs widow he wrote to say how impossible it was to express the depth of his grief.
		Sollertinskyâs sister felt that in the second movementâ”the first to be written after the dedicateeâs deathâ”Shostakovich had captured her brotherâs âtemper, his polemics, his manner of speech, his habit of returning to one and the same thought, developing itâ with remarkable accuracy.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_7478_pf.html (2637 words)

	Conductor & Music Teacher » Blog Archive » About Viola Sonata
		This is not a joke: indeed Dmitri Dmitrievich thought of himself as an ordinary man. We see 15 year old teenagers experiencing this feeling while most are usually full of high opinions of themselves.
		This is only possible for a devout man – a very rare sacred quality, and Ivan Ivanovich, closest friend of Dmitri Dmitrievich, enjoyed his boundless love.
		Shostakovich’s love was an important engine of his artistic might; artistic might was also the reason for his being loved.
	www.korschmin.com /forum/?p=29 (1432 words)

	Beauty ravaged by a turbulent Motherland - smh.com.au
		Shostakovich's loyal friend Ivan Sollertinsky once characterised the symphonies of Mahler as Dostoyevsky narrated in the language of Charlie Chaplin.
		He might have extended the description to significant passages of Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, in which shocking actions frequently generate music of slapstick momentum and liveliness.
		Shostakovich, an admirer and to some extent a stylistic follower of Mahler, was also a practised composer of film music and a former pianist for the screenings of silent movies of the 1920s.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/09/1022982796918.html (1393 words)

	Nextbook: Current Features
		Many of the people closest to Shostakovich were Jews, including his favorite pupil, Venyamin Fleishman, and his best friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.
		Sollertinsky he recalled in the mournful, piercing Second Piano Trio, written as word of the Holocaust was reaching Moscow.
		The final section of this piece includes a freylekhs, a Jewish wedding tune that seems to link the dead and the living in a desperate, sacred dance of joy and sadness.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/print.html?id=20 (1427 words)

	CHAMBER MUSIC REVIEW: Consummate Performance By Anatole Leikin (Beaux Arts Trio, Antonio Meneses, Daniel Hope, Menahem ...
		In fact, Sollertinsky died in Novosibirsk in 1944, thousands of miles from the war zone.
		A few weeks later Sollertinsky died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of forty-one, only a few days after introducing the premiere performances of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony in Novosibirsk.
		Neither Shostakovich nor Sollertinsky was Jewish (despite the Columbia Artists Management's reference in the program notes to Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky's supposedly Jewish heritage).
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/beauxarts_4_12_05.php (1136 words)

	MUSICAL TALES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sollertinsky was a perfectly educated man, a Russian polymath and an expert in theater, literature and languages.
		In these capacities Sollertinsky was an active promoter of music by his close friend Dmitry Shostakovich.
		During the war again Nazi Germany of 1941-1945 Ivan Sollertinsky moved to Siberia along with the Philharmonic.
	www.vor.ru /English/MTales/tales_074.html (758 words)

	Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bleak tone, and in particular the lack of an optimistic conclusion, made it unsuitable as propaganda at home or abroad.
		Shostakovich's friend Ivan Sollertinsky noted that, "the music is significantly tougher and more astringent than the Fifth or the Seventh and for that reason is unlikely to become popular".
		The government responded by giving it the subtitle the Stalingrad Symphony and portraying it as a memorial to those killed in that battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Shostakovich) (674 words)

	Margaret Coote, "Rhapsodic Symphony..."
		Sollertinsky was waiting for me at my hotel.
		Ivan wasn't the type to support censored writers -- he didn't have the backbone to stand up against the opinion of anyone more powerful than he -- but I imagined he had stumbled upon a (safe) opportunity to buy a copy of Zamyatin's We and had grabbed it just for sensation's sake.
		The next time I saw Sollertinsky was five years later; family illnesses and hard work had kept me busy.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/sforres1/syllabi/dis/mcoote.html (2256 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Music
		Trio was dedicated to memory of his long time friend and advocate Ivan Sollertinsky.
		Sollertinsky was a brilliant, largely self-taught polymath, whose interests and expertise spanned philosophy, linguistics, ancient and modern languages, history of literature and drama of various periods and cultures.
		Ivan Ivanovich was my very closest and dearest friend.
	www.fuguemasters.com /dsch.html (4928 words)

	DSCH-L Archives -- April 2003 (#170)
		I met Sollertinsky's son at the premiere, in Finland, of the Suite on Finnish Themes the summer before last.
		There probably still are Sollertinskys in St. Petersburg - Dmitri Sollertinsky - who was director of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society from 1970-1977, has written a biography of DDS.
		A clue may be had in the Piano Trio dedicated to Sollertinsky in which a tribute to the dead af the W.W.II concentration camps - mostly Jews - plays a prominent role.
	listserv.uh.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0304&L=dsch-l&D=0&H=1&T=0&P=17618 (334 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Kurt Sanderling
		(This was where he first met the composer.) The symphony was prefaced, both in Novosibirsk and later in Moscow, with a speech by Shostakovich's close friend Ivan Sollertinsky.
		Sollertinsky said the symphony reflected the horrors of war but offered the bright vision of a world of peace.
		This was, of course, sheer nonsense, as he was perfectly aware that the central theme was not the horrors of war, but the horrors of life, the life of an intellectual of his day.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/sanderling/sanderling.html (1729 words)

	WHOSE SHOSTAKOVICH?
		Shostakovich's detailed connections to this 'whirlpool' of artistic life around him in his youth have not yet been mapped in detail, although the lineaments of whom he knew and associated with are plotted in the opening chapters of Laurel Fay's new biography.
		It is clear from what she writes that, as Shostakovich himself suggested afterwards, his relations with his cultural and intellectual surroundings were mediated to a considerable degree from 1927 onwards by his close friendship with a prominent figure in Leningrad at that time, Ivan Sollertinsky - critic, linguist, aesthete, polymath, socialite and wit.
		Even a slight acquaintance with the artistic world to which both Shostakovich and Sollertinsky belonged will show there were creative figures all around them fascinated, in different ways and to different degrees, by the kinds of issues touched on by the 'bon mot' of Gershkovich.
	www.geocities.com /kuala_bear/articles/mcburney.html (5201 words)

	Fairfield University :: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to perform at Quick Center
		The St. Petersburg-born master is known as the father of Soviet musical rebellion, a complex composer who won government approval with one piece and condemnation from Stalin himself with the next.
		Written in the waning days of World War II, his "Piano Trio No. 2" is dedicated to the memory of Ivan Sollertinsky, a close friend who was one of Russian's foremost musicologists.
		A monumental and tragic composition, the trio blends cello harmonics with the second movement's wild scherzo and a final movement that has the character of a Jewish folk song, a daring addition for one living under Soviet rule.
	www.fairfield.edu /x6072.xml (940 words)

	3MBS Radio
		In the same year he wrote his Second Symphony (subtitled “To October”) and also began his satirical opera The Nose, based on the story by Gogol.
		Also in 1927 Shostakovich began a long friendship with Ivan Sollertinsky, which continued until the latter's death in 1944.
		Initial difficulties led to divorce proceedings in 1935, but the couple soon reunited.
	www.3mbs.org.au /shostakovich.html (924 words)

	Leningrad Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shostakovich, denied the chance to fight on the front line with his fellow citizens, provided them with a symbol of their defiance - one which could make them proud of the war torn and starving city in which they were trapped.
		The first movement of the Seventh Symphony was initially conceived as a complete one movement symphony in itself, and it was only after playing it on piano for his friend and confidante, Ivan Sollertinsky, that Shostakovich decided to extend it into the four movement work that is the Seventh Symphony.
		It is this first movement that contains the most distinct and obvious references to conflict and destruction through thematic interaction.
	www.sonyakeogh.com /allin/dissertation/3.htm (1399 words)

	Amazon.com: "Ivan Sollertinsky": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As the young composer rapidly started to acquire fame, he could count among his new friends such luminaries as Ivan Sollertinsky, Nikolai Malko, Alexander Gauk, Leonid Nikolayev,...
		Yet it should not be forgotten that among Shostakovich's closest friends and confidants was Ivan Sollertinsky - man of many parts, but primarily a musicologist - who probably did more than any other individual to shape...
		His first summary comes from a 10 February 1931 letter to the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky (1902-44), a close friend.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Ivan-Sollertinsky (476 words)

	Classical Voice of North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was composed to honor the memory of the composer's closest friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.
		Shostakovich wrote to his friend's widow that he was "indebted to (Sollertinsky) for all of [his] growth." The performance was by pianist Allison Gagnon, violinist Kevin Lawrence, and cellist Zvi Plesser.
		During the high harmonics for solo cello, intonation fleetingly slipped, but otherwise Plesser's rich-toned cello sound was welcome as it blended with his colleagues or shone in solo lines.
	www.cvnc.org /reviews/2005/102005/NCSACM.html (759 words)

	Review: Arts & Screen: Flak in the USSR: The Royal Opera`s sexually charged production of Lady Macbeth reignites one of ...
		Shostakovich wrote to his friend Ivan Sollertinsky: 'The show went well.
		At the end, I was called out by the audience and took a bow.
		In Russia, in the same year as Testimony, Dmitri and Ludmilla Sollertinsky published one of the few authoritative memoirs about how Shostakovich 'did not intend to merely "add music" to Leskov's story.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_222681.php (1555 words)

	New books show softer side of Shostakovich - Turkish Daily News Sep 09, 2006
		On the eve of the centennial of Dmitry Shostakovich's birth on Sept. 25, two new books offer Russian readers an insight into the "human" side of a composer often considered to have been dour or depressed.
		The first of the books, both launched on Thursday in Moscow, is a collection of letters from Shostakovich (1906-1975) to his close friend Ivan Sollertinsky, a music critic.
		The letters to Sollertinsky "cover the most important period of Shostakovich's life, at the time of the Stalinist terror, World War II, and the attempts to destroy avant-garde culture and the spiritual life of the country," Tairova said.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=53654 (326 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio
		Shostakovich, too, dedicated his Trio to someone recently dead — his best friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.
		Writer, music critic, and polymath, Sollertinsky not only supported the extremely nervous Shostakovich emotionally during the worst years of Stalin's Great Terror, he also introduced him to the symphonies of Mahler —; and thereby completely transformed him as a composer.
		When Sollertinsky died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1944, the shattered Shostakovich decided to compose a work in his memory.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0610_florestan-review.html (388 words)

	Atma Classique
		Dmitry Shostakovich carried this tradition into the twentieth century with his Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op.
		67, dedicated to the memory of his closest friend the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky.
		These are the two telling works performed here in their premiere recording by the Rachmaninoff Trio de Montréal, whose performances have been described as “sensitive and powerful.” (The Lawrentian, USA)
	www.atmaclassique.com /en/catalogue/disques.asp?id=ACD22271 (98 words)

	Classical Voice of North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The immediate inspiration for its composition was the unexpected death of Shostakovich's closest friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, who had served as a sounding board as the composer tried out new works.
		The Largo – on an immediate level, a desolate dirge or threnody on Sollertinsky's death – is a chaconne consisting of a set of variations on the eight desolate chords played by the pianist to open the movement.
		The wild last movement, dominated by Yiddish-like dance tunes, was suggested to the composer by early reports of Nazi atrocities such as making their victims dance upon their graves.
	www.cvnc.org /reviews/2005/082005/4Seasons.html (549 words)

	Slavianski Bazaar Festival venues/Vitebsk I.I. Sollertinsky Musical College
		It was founded in the October of 1918 by the representatives of Vitebsk musical intelligentsia, including Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky – a person of encyclopedic learning, a musician and a polyglot.
		In 2003 a monument to I.I. Sollertinsky was erected next to the building of the college, located in the historical city center.
		During the International Festival of Arts “Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk” the building of the musical college will hold concerts of the “ I.I. Sollertinsky Music Meetings”.
	festival.vitebsk.by /en/areas/school (134 words)

	Exploing Shostakovich And Copland Via Harmonia Mundi Release Review By Phil Gold
		While perfectly constructed, this work does not bear the stamp of genius and its principal interest is historical.
		The second trio, written in 1944, and dedicated to the memory of his friend Ivan Sollertinsky is a masterpiece.
		It can be understood either as a personal work as Shostakovich indicated, or as a memorial to the millions of Jews who were being systematically eliminated in the Nazi holocaust.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0605/classical/shostakovichcopland.htm (711 words)

	The Cleveland Chamber Music Society - Our 57th Season of World-Class Chamber Music
		Commentators looking for extra-musical “meanings” in Dmitri Shostakovich’s music have paid much attention to this work, written in 1944 during the darkest days of World War 2.
		It has been called a memorial tribute to the composer’s close friend, musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky, who died shortly after its composition was begun.
		Its use of “Jewish” themes and melodic inflections has been analyzed, and some have seen it as a lament for the sad wartime plight of the Russian nation as a whole.
	www.clevelandchambermusic.org /20061010-program.html (666 words)

	Mostly Music in the Midlands by Phillip
		Is there any chamber music work with piano written since 1940 that has attained "standard repertoire" status the way this trio has?
		Like Tchaikovsky's trio for the same forces, this work was written as a response to the composer's grief at the death of a close friend; in this case, the critic and musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky.
		While the first three movements are each potent in their own way (the first with its haunting fugal opening, featuring high harmonics on the cello; the second a wild scherzo with no abatement; the third a lament in the form of a passacaglia) it is in the final movement where we get the true payoff.
	phillipbush.blogstream.com /v1/pid/77965.html (474 words)

	Amicable exchange Musical Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yet he evidently came to rely on Glikman as a trusted ally, one with whom he could openly discuss a whole range of mutual interests - from music (of course) to football, to domestic circumstances, and much else besides.
		Moreover, following the death of their mutual friend Ivan Sollertinsky in 1944, Glikman seems to have been one of the few people without a professional (political) axe to grind to whom Shostakovich could with confidence turn for an honest opinion.
		This gave him a rare advantage over the many servile flatterers spawned by the USSR; to Glikman, he was simply `my best friend'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_200204/ai_n9022467 (716 words)

	Beaux Arts Trio Releases New CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The E Minor Piano Trio was begun in 1943 immediately after Shostakovich had completed his 7th and 8th symphonies.
		It was strongly affected by public and private events including the devastation of the Second World War and the sudden death of his close friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.
		The finale is grim and disturbing, using Jewish idioms as symbols of oppression and victim-hood.
	www.beauxartstrio.org /shostakovich_cd.html (531 words)

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