Music for Silenced Voices - Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

Leads the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped the music composer Dmitri Shostakovich's singular, emblematic twentieth-century life.

About the author

Wendy Lesser, the editor of The Threepenny Review, is the author of seven previous nonfiction books and one novel. She divides her year between Berkeley and New York.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Lesser, Lesser Wendy
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9780300181593
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18159-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: 1 b-w illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music