Shostakovich and His World / / ed. by Laurel E. Fay.

• MitwirkendeR: Botstein, Leon,; Emerson, Caryl,; Fanning, David,; Frederiks, Dmitrii,; Gibbs, Christopher H.,; Gruber, Roman Ilich,; Hakobian, Levon,; Maximenkov, Leonid,; McBurney, Gerard,; Morrison, Simon,; Sadykhova, Rosa,; Schmelz, Peter J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fay, Laurel E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 52
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 6 halftones.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional pur...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Permissions
• Note on Transliteration
• PART I DOCUMENTS
• Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927
• Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process
• Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a "Friend"
• "The Phenomenon of the Seventh": A Documentary Essay on Shostakovich's "War" Symphony
• PART II ESSAYS
• Shostakovich as Industrial Saboteur: Observations on The Bolt
• The Nose and the Fourteenth Symphony: An Affinity of Opposites
• Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition
• Fried Chicken in the Bird-Cherry Trees
• Shostakovich and His Pupils
• Shostakovich's "Twelve-Tone" Compositions and the Politics and Practice of Soviet Serialism
• Listening to Shostakovich
• INDEX
• CONTRIBUTORS