Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time.

Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries. Shostakovich A Life By LAUREL E. FAY Oxford University Press. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Buy this book. Though the Shostakovich family was of Polish-Lithuanian extraction, the composer's immediate forebears came from Siberia. He was born Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich on September 25, 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Early life and works. Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. Send Email. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was a Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. This is what, in the final years of his life, Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich told biographer Solomon Volkov. Dmitri Shostakovich and his music were particularly prominent during the centenary year of his birth, and as the Soviet regime continues to become more a part of the past than of the present, materials relating to his life and work have become more accessible. Read the Review. Recipient(s) will receive an email with a link to 'Review: Shostakovich: A Life by Laurel E. Fay' and will not need an account to access the content. He entered the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. "Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. Such was his tragically painful perception of his "grey and miserable" life. 1906-1919-----Childhood. Dmitri-Shostakovich-A-Life-In-Nb309402020 Adobe Acrobat Reader DCDownload Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Ebook PDF:Download free Acrobat Reader DC software the only PDF viewer that lets you read search print and interact with virtually any type of PDF file. Isaak Glikman's Pis'ma k drugu and Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered are without question the most valuable resources to have been published about Shostakovich since his death.