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    The Dmitri Shostakovich class is a class of seven ro-pax ferries of project B-492/B-493 originally built by Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego...
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    American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. He is a recipient of an honorary title Honored Artist...
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  • an 18km diameter minor planet Dmitri Shostakovich-class ferry, a class of ro-pax ferry built 1980-1986 Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp...
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  • for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (commonly known as Jazz Suite No. 1) by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1934. The suite has three movements: Waltz in G minor...
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    five-movement composition for two violins, viola, cello, and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. He composed it between July 13 and September 14, 1940. Sources conflict...
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    The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the...
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  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77, was originally composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947–48. He was still working on the piece at the time of the...
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    premiered by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. They are arranged following the circle of fifths, with one prelude in each major and minor key. Shostakovich began...
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    The Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 by Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of his piano sonatas, was composed in early 1943. It was his first solo piano...
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  • F-sharp minor (Op. 1) is a piece for orchestra written by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist during the Soviet...
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  • Muddle Instead of Music (category Dmitri Shostakovich)
    newspaper Pravda on 28 January 1936. The unsigned article condemned Dmitri Shostakovich's popular opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District as, among other...
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  • Интервидение, romanized: Intervidenie) is a brief orchestral work by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in 1971. It was commissioned by the Intervision Network...
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    romanized: Igroki), Op. 63, is an unfinished opera, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1941/42 to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The...
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    Children's Notebook (category Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich)
    A Child's Exercise Book, Op. 69 is a suite for piano composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Although precise dating is uncertain, it is believed to have been...
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  • War era. The film featured the music of several Soviet composers: Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolai Myaskovsky. The...
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  • Op. 89a, is a suite of music adapted from the score written by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1951 film of the same name directed by Mikheil Chiaureli...
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    Mstislav Rostropovich (category Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class)
    long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen...
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    and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Dmitri Shostakovich's violin concerti and the violin concerto by Aram Khachaturian. He...
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    (BR-KLASSIK 900151) Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR-KLASSIK 900191) Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 – Bavarian...
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    as soloist, Philadelphia Orchestra, 24 December 1934, RCA Victor Dmitri Shostakovich, Sixth Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, August 1940, RCA Victor...
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    in his 1913 collection Alcools. This version was set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 14, amongst other poets, and by French singer-songwriter...
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    Gidon Kremer (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    the Hommage à Piazzolla recordings), George Enescu, Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók, Philip Glass, Alfred Schnittke, Victor Kissine, Mieczysław...
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    Heinz Holliger (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    C, H, E, and Re, or "Sacher" spelled with German words for the pitch classes.) Holliger contributed a chaconne. Some of the compositions were premiered...
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    Sviatoslav Richter (category Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class)
    horizon and yet single out the tiniest detail of the landscape." Dmitri Shostakovich wrote of Richter: "Richter is an extraordinary phenomenon. The enormity...
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    conducted the first performance outside Russia of Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony at Snape in 1970. Shostakovich, a friend since 1960, dedicated the symphony...
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    Alfred Brendel (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    he never had more formal piano lessons and, although he attended master classes with Edwin Fischer and Eduard Steuermann, was largely self-taught after...
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    and English). IRCAM. "Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM. "Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2"...
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    New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) about the Paris Commune. It features Dmitri Shostakovich's first film score. British filmmaker Ken McMullen has made two films...
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    András Schiff (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    Celibidache (1970) Arthur Rubinstein (1971) Yehudi Menuhin (1972) Dmitri Shostakovich (1973) Andrés Segovia (1974) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1975) Mogens...
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    double-bass Hymn III, for cello, bassoon, harpsichord and bells or timpani Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 Karlheinz Stockhausen...
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