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	Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 4 in C Minor (Opus 43) by Dmitri Shostakovich was begun in 1934.
		Shostakovich and his composing colleague, Moishei Vainberg, premiered the symphony in its two piano reduction at a meeting of the Composers' Union in 1946.
		The symphony was eventually accepted for performance by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the date of the premiere was set for December 30, 1936 under the baton of the orchestra's then musical director, Fritz Stiedry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Shostakovich) (2447 words)

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	Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, which like the Tenth Symphony incorporates quotations and his musical monogram.
		Shostakovich died of lung cancer on August 9, 1975 and was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
		Sollertinsky introduced Shostakovich to the music of Gustav Mahler, which had a strong influence on his music from the Fourth Symphony onwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3034 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/symphony.html (1963 words)

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		Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra As the fifth-oldest orchestra in the Ohio.
		Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, or Göteborgs symfoniker, is an 1987.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/symphony.html (1963 words)

	Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 8 in C minor (Opus 65) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4th November that year by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated.
		The symphony's C minor key has encouraged its interpretation as a journey from tragedy to triumph, in the tradition of Beethoven's Fifth, Bruckner's Eighth and Mahler's Second.
		It was given the subtitle the Stalingrad Symphony and portrayed as a memorial to those killed in that battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Shostakovich) (280 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Piano Concerto No. 2 (DE 3246)
		The Fifth Symphony, finished by Shostakovich in 1937, is probably the most frequently performed of his symphonies, and it's easy to hear why.
		The Second Piano Concerto showcases a lighter side of Shostakovich: the orchestra is chamber-sized, and the music exhibits a youthful spirit and irrepressible energy.
		In it we hear the essence of Shostakovich's symphonic personality - it was with the Fifth that he returned to a traditional standard-sized orchestra and four clearly-organized movements, convinced at the time of the need for firm structure in symphonic writing.
	www.delosmus.com /de32/de3246.html (200 words)

	Encyclopedia: Symphony-No.-1-(Shostakovich)
		The Symphony No. 1 in F Minor (Opus 10) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926.
		The symphony is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (triangle, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, bells), piano, and strings.
		The clear, efficient orchestration of the First Symphony is in quite a contrast to the enormous, complex orchestrations in some of his later symphonies (7, 10, 11).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Symphony_No._1_(Shostakovich) (876 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, which like the Tenth Symphony incorporates quotations and his musical monogram.
		Shostakovich died of lung cancer on August 9, 1975 and was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
		Sollertinsky introduced Shostakovich to the music of Gustav Mahler, which had a strong influence on his music from the Fourth Symphony onwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3448 words)

	Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subtitles of the symphony and of each movement officially commemorate the attempted Russian Revolution of 1905.
		Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator.
		However, there is also reason to believe that it was a commentary on the Hungarian Uprising of 1956; it was composed immediately after the uprising, and his widow Irina has said that he had it "in mind" during composition (DSCH Journal, No. 12 p.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._11_(Shostakovich) (205 words)

	Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Opus 54) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the
		It was originally said to be a large-scale "Lenin Symphony"- a project which was often announced, but never materialised.
		The symphony had a successful premiere, but it was later criticised for its ungainly structure and the jarring juxtaposition of moods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Shostakovich) (205 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		The Fourth Symphony is not Shostakovich's longest - the Seventh ("Leningrad") claims that distinction - but with its 20 woodwinds, 17 brass, and large percussion and string sections, it requires the largest orchestra of any of his symphonies.
		Fortunately for Shostakovich, he was not forced to participate actively in the public debate, to grovel and recant his "sins." Instead, he observed developments from the sidelines and applied for an audience with Stalin.
		His First Symphony, his graduation exercise at the Leningrad Conservatory, had become legendary after its first performance in 1926, but it hadn't taken firm hold in the repertory, nor had the Second or Third Symphonies, occasional pieces for orchestra and chorus that were symphonies in name only.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=943&back=/tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=1040;; (1251 words)

	:: Music :: Repertoire :: Beethoven ::
		Symphony No. 4 was heard the first time in a concert in 1807 with a brand new overture and piano concerto.
		The word symphony can also be another name for “orchestra.” Some people say, “I’m going to hear the symphony tonight.” That means they are going to hear an orchestra like the Minnesota Orchestra perform a concert.
		The music kind of symphony grew out of opera overtures (the first instrumental piece in an opera which gives a sneak peak of the music to come) hundreds of years ago.
	www.teaching.com /europe2004/music/repertoire/beethovenrep.cfm (226 words)

	A fitting tribute to Shostakovich
		When Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4, he was in his late 20s, an acclaimed talent who suddenly found himself attacked by Stalin for insufficient devotion to the dictator's vision of socialist realism.
		It was somehow fitting that on the weekend of Mozart's 250th birthday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Shostakovich's harrowing Symphony No. 4.
		What made Thursday night's performance of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony under Mark Elder's baton so appropriate was not simply the gripping intensity conductor and musicians brought to its desperate, screaming outbursts and dazed funeral march.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/cst-ftr-cso28.html (485 words)

	Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4
		Shostakovich scored it for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, small clarinet in E-flat, 2 clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, snare drum, tam-tam, cymbals, triangle, glockenspiel, and xylophone), 2 harps, piano, and strings.
		The Cleveland Orchestra recorded Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in 1942 with Artur Rodzinski and in 1981 with Lorin Maazel.
		The symphony was definitely a response to something, but not in the sense of a chastised schoolboy mending his ways — rather as a great artist reacting to the cruelty and insanity of the times.
	www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/030603.html (3471 words)

	London Shostakovich Orchestra - November 2000 Programme Notes
		Shostakovich, infamously reticent when questioned about his music, described the second movement, in a published interview at the time of the symphony's premiere, as `a march with elements of a scherzo'.
		The successor to Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was expected to be the second instalment of a symphonic war trilogy, and thus the sense of bleakness that pervades the work was incomprehensible, especially when `the People' were deemed to require only uplifting and celebratory music.
		The Fourth Symphony (composed in 1935-36), another work whose fate was directly affected by the scathing 1936 article in Pravda `Muddle instead of Music', had been premiered a year earlier in 1961.
	www.shostakovich.com /nov2000.html (1188 words)

	Classical Notes - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Classical Classics, Peter Gutmann
		Shostakovich titled it “An Artist's Creative Response to Just Criticism” and announced its program as “the stabilization of a personality of a man with all his experiences.” He proclaimed: “There can be no greater joy for a composer than...
		But Shostakovich was the first great composer to mature under Communism, and ideology smothered his second and third symphonies, both of which, despite impressive quiet moments and suggestions of striking developments, devolve into drab descriptive choral endings commemorating the October Revolution and May Day.
		Shostakovich's brilliance and originality emerged in his very first symphony, written at age 19 as a graduation exercise from the Leningrad music conservatory.
	www.classicalnotes.net /classics/shostafifth.html (1715 words)

	Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (Opus 14; subtitled To October) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written and first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927.
		It was originally written as a cantata; the composer only later designated it his second symphony.
		The Largo itself has two parts: a polyphonic beginning and a meditative episode which Shostakovich described as the "death of a child" (letter to Boleslav Yavorsky).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Shostakovich) (183 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 - $9.11-
		Probably no purely instrumental symphony by Shostakovich has given rise to so much extra-musical comment, but to my mind it can all be dispensed with.
		I love Shostakovich, and I listen eagerly to all his symphonies except for the acknowledged duds--the Seventh and Twelfth--and socialist hackwork--the Third and Eleventh.
		Shostakovich somehow favored the clarinet in the high register; and in this chorale, he "humanizes" this timbre (in a way opposite to the "wail" of the second movement).
	more-kitchen.com /300358/goodsB00000IP39.html (1878 words)

	4.2-Sym10.2.doc
		In String Quartet No. 2 and Symphony No. 9 Shostakovich seems to have adopted the early Viennese model of sonata form in which it was conceived as being in two halves, with development and recapitulation constituting the second half.
		Until the publication of Kravetz’s article, the prevailing interpretation of Symphony No. 10, whether it comes in the way of a casual mention or within a book-length analysis of the symphony (Fanning’s The Breath of the Symphonist), has been that the symphony represents Shostakovich’s triumph over Stalin.
		Shostakovich uses several techniques to accomplish this, such as a simple alternation of characteristic fragments, contrapuntal overlap, and using the contour of one theme in the harmonic context of another.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dcastro/Chapters/4.2-Sym10.2.doc (4959 words)

	Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 9 in E flat major (Opus 70) by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed on 3 November 1945 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky.
		With this small-scale work, Shostakovich avoided the traditional peroration Ninth Symphony and demands for a colossal victory celebration.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._9_%28Shostakovich%29 (98 words)

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		Symphony No.15, although a purely instrumental work, is part of this tragic cycle; yet it also has its brighter moments, expressing the serenity with which a dying man, who has come to terms with his fate, is able to contemplate life and the world.
		Shostakovich scored it for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (tam-tam, triangle, castanets, woodblock, slapstick, xylophone, vibraphone, bells, tom-tom, side drum, bass drum), celesta, and strings.
		The symphony ends with the eerie sonorities of the strings' harmonics against a lively battery of percussion, combined with reminiscences of both the "Leningrad" bass theme and the "toyshop" melody from the first movement.
	www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/052704.html (2811 words)

	Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15
		It is not far-fetched to say that the convoluted career of Shostakovich the symphonist could serve as a barometer of the political climate of Soviet communism, where ideology demanded that music, in line with the other arts, should be strictly representational.
		Another statement by the composer advanced the idea of the symphony as a passage through life from birth to death.
		Nowhere is this more evident than in the last of his symphonies, written when the ailing composer, beset by thoughts of mortality, had retreated into his inner world, and preferred to express himself in the intimate forms of the string quartet or vocal cycle.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/95_96season/1st_concert/shostakovich.cfm (706 words)

	Classic Records Catalog / ASD-3911
		Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op.
		Shostakovich draws too on the atmosphere of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (first a film score and later a cantata) both in the choral writing and in the heavier orchestral tuttis, with their pungent sonorities for the lower brass.
		The Symphony No. 13 of 1962 is in many ways the most remarkable of the trilogy.
	www.classicrecs.com /ASD-3911.htm (1110 words)

	14
		Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 14 (Opus 135) by 1969 by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Rudolf Barsh...
		Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven) opus 27 no. 2 is the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia" (Italian:...
		String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor\, Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in 18...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/14.html (924 words)

	Shostakovich's fifth symphony
		Shostakovich's fourth symphony was withdrawn from rehearsal soon afterwards.
		The symphony was first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1937.
		It is said that the applause after the symphony finished was longer than the symphony itself, so overcome were the audience with the emotion of having listened to a piece of music that wasn't merely political hackwork, and that wasn't afraid to display some real human emotion.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/shostakovich/fifth-symphony.html (601 words)

	13
		Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Opus 113, subtitled Yevgeny Mravinsky refused to con...
		Symphony No. 13 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 13 in D major was written in 1763.
		Shayetet 13 Shayetet 13 (שייטת 13) is the Israeli naval commando elite SF unit.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/13.html (1286 words)

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