Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich {{Audio|Ru-Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich.ogg|listen}} (Russian: {{lang|ru|??????? ?????????? ??????????}}, Dmitrij Dmitrievi? ?ostakovi?) (September 12, 1906 (OS)/September 25, 1906 (NS) – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. He had a troubled relationship with the government, which included two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948; in public however he remained loyal, joining the party in 1960 and serving in the Supreme Soviet. Since his death, his response to life in the USSR has been the subject of political and musical controversy, with debate over the extent to which he may have been a secret dissident.

Further reading

• Fay, Laurel (1999). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195134389.
• Ho, Allan and Feofanov, Dmitry (1998). Shostakovich Reconsidered. Toccata Press. ISBN 0907689566.

References

• Ardov, Michael (2004). Memories of Shostakovich. Short Books. ISBN 190409564X.
• {{Web reference_complete | Author=Luebke, Jon | Title=Jon Luebke's Shostakovich Page| Publisher= | Work=Jon H. Luebke| URL=http://www.msu.edu/user/luebkejo/shost1.html | Date=August 17 | Year=2005 }}
• MacDonald, Ian (1990). The New Shostakovich. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1555530893.
• {{Web reference_complete | Author=MacDonald, Ian | Title=Shostakovichiana| Publisher= | Work=Music Under Societ Rule | URL=http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/dmitri.html | Date=August 17 | Year=2005 }}
• {{Web reference_complete | Author=van Rijen, Onno | Title=Opus by Shostakovich| Publisher= | Work=Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers | URL=http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosopus.htm | Date=August 17 | Year=2005 }}
• Shostakovich, Dmitri and Glikman, Isaak (2001). Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman. Cornell Univ Press. ISBN 0801439795.
• Shostakovich, Dmitri and Volkov, Solomon (2000). Testimony (7th edition). Proscenium. ISBN 0879100214.
• Volkov, Solomon (2004). Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator. Knopf. ISBN 0375410821.
• Wilson, Elizabeth (1994). Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691044651.
• {{Web reference_complete | Author=? | Title=Shostakovich Myths Debunked | Publisher= | Work=Redrick's Musicological References | URL=http://www.geocities.com/rickredrick/Shostakovich.html | Date=August 17 | Year=2005 }}