Shostakovich: A LifeOxford University Press, 2000 - 458 páginas For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable worker, he wrote his arresting music despite deprivations during the Nazi invasion and constant surveillance under Stalin's regime. Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. In August 1942, his Seventh Symphony, written as a protest against fascism, was performed in Nazi-besieged Leningrad by the city's surviving musicians, and was triumphantly broadcast to the German troops, who had been bombarded beforehand to silence them. Alone among his artistic peers, he survived successive Stalinist cultural purges and won the Stalin Prize five times, yet in 1948 he was dismissed from his conservatory teaching positions, and many of his works were banned from performance. He prudently censored himself, in one case putting aside a work based on Jewish folk poems. Under later regimes he balanced a career as a model Soviet, holding government positions and acting as an international ambassador with his unflagging artistic ambitions. In the years since his death in 1975, many have embraced a view of Shostakovich as a lifelong dissident who encoded anti-Communist messages in his music. This lucid and fascinating biography demonstrates that the reality was much more complex. Laurel Fay's book includes a detailed list of works, a glossary of names, and an extensive bibliography, making it an indispensable resource for future studies of Shostakovich. |
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Childhood 19061919 | 5 |
Conservatory 19191926 | 15 |
Spreading Wings 19261928 | 31 |
Pioneer 19291932 | 47 |
TragedySatire 19321936 | 65 |
Crisis 19361937 | 85 |
Reprieve 19381941 | 105 |
The War Years 19411944 | 121 |
Consolidation 19581961 | 205 |
Renewal 19611966 | 223 |
Jubilees 19661969 | 245 |
Immortality 19701975 | 263 |
Notes | 287 |
List of Works | 345 |
Glossary of Names | 361 |
Select Bibliography | 385 |
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Página 4 - Testimony would still furnish a poor source for the serious biographer. The embittered, "deathbed" disclosures of someone ravaged by illness, with festering psychological wounds and scores to settle, are not to be relied upon for accuracy, fairness, or balance when recreating the impact of the events of a lifetime as they actually occurred.
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Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography John C. Tibbetts Vista previa restringida - 2008 |