after it was completed. Sources conflict as to when and where Shostakovich began Loyalty, but the score was completed on February 13, 1970. It was premiered...
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally...
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the Pacific Ocean Loyalty (Fat Joe album), 2002 Loyalty (Screwball album), 2001 Loyalty (Soulja Boy album), 2015 Loyalty (Shostakovich), a 1970 song cycle...
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Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist...
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in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year 1917, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1961. He dedicated it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin. Although the...
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Dmitri Shostakovich typically catalogued his compositions and occasionally his arrangements of other composers' music with opus numbers. He began this...
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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 Zhdanov...
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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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composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear by Grigori Kozintsev, based on Shakespeare's tragedy. It is Shostakovich's last completed film...
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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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Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14, subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first...
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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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dedicated to the Beethoven Quartet as a testament to his loyalty to the ensemble. Shostakovich's Fifteenth Quartet was modeled on the Third Quartet by his...
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by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. They are arranged following the circle of fifths, with one prelude in each major and minor key. Shostakovich began composing...
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Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision that was the first case in United States copyright...
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October, Op. 131, is a symphonic poem composed by Dmitri Shostakovich to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967. He was...
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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 Gamblers...
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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 for...
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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 labels...
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Beethoven – Der glorreiche Augenblick Schumann – Hermann und Dorothea Shostakovich – Loyalty This disambiguation page lists compositions catalogued to the same...
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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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minor (Op. 1) is a piece for orchestra written by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist during the Soviet era...
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Festival was one of the inspirations for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1970 a capella choral cycle, Loyalty. He dedicated the score to Ernesaks, who also premiered...
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Children's Notebook (category Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich)
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 composed...
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Gerald Finley on his 2014 album of Shostakovich songs for Ondine). The critic Ian MacDonald suggested that Shostakovich may have used this sonnet, with its...
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theme music is the romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich's The Gadfly Suite, though Shostakovich is not actually credited (Harry Rabinowitz is credited...
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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. The...
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Winter's Tale (the suspicion of adultery initiates the plot) Dmitri Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (F) Richard Strauss: Salome (M)...
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School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired...
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classical music, such as the Symphony No.13, called "Babi Yar", of Dmitri Shostakovich. Other musical expressions of social criticism are frequent in punk and...
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