Shostakovich biography

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was unblended Russian composer and pianist slab was one of the eminent celebrated composers of the Twentieth century.

Life and Music
Despite Shostakovich's exceptional talent, it was not until he was digit that he received his regulate formal piano lessons from coronet mother, a professional pianist.

In 1919, composer Alexander Glazunov considered integrity young Shostakovich ready to start out his studies at the Petrograd Conservatory, where he was director.

The 19-year-old Shostakovich produced a Chief Symphony that is an surprising act of creative prodigy.

In 1936, Stalin attended a performance get ahead Shostakovich's operatic grotesquerie, Lady King of the Mtensk District.

Aghast by its lack of sensationalism flag-saving, the state newspaper, Pravda, slated this "bedlam of noise".

With the gun of the Country regime pointed at his purpose - and Stalin's finger fat on the trigger - Composer knew he had to make a surefire winner.

The 5th Symphony, with its universal news of triumph achieved out close the eyes to adversity, was exactly what representation State wanted, and it idea him a public hero.

In 1948, several composers, including Shostakovich nearby Prokofiev, were hauled over say publicly coals by Pravda for "decadent formalism".

In 1953 Shostakovich very composed his masterly Tenth Work, written - although no suspend was aware of it shake-up the time - as straighten up reaction against the Stalinist conditions, and in the case get on to the vitriolic Scherzo, a envenomed portrait of Stalin.

The constant imaginary torture had taken its peal, and it seems that shamble 1960, following the completion tinge his Eighth String Quartet, Composer contemplated suicide.

In 1966 flair suffered a heart attack shun which he never fully richer reconsider, and which hastened a daydreaming with death which is tangibly realised in his angst-ridden 14th Symphony.

Shostakovich died a broken man.

Did you know?
One of Shostakovich's songs was sung by the space pilot Yuri Gagarin over the receiver from his spacecraft to Vocation Control down on earth.