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A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.
Sommario
Introduction; Part I. Archival Studies: 1. Interrupted masterpiece: Shostakovich's unfinished opera Orango Olga Digonskaya; 2. Notes from Shostakovich's diary Olga Dombrovskaya; 3. Mitya Shostakovich's first opus (dating the Scherzo Op. 1) Olga Digonskaya; Part II. Analysis and Interpretation: 4. Shostakovich and structural hearing David Fanning; 5. Socialist realism, modernism and Dmitriy Shostakovich's Odna (Alone, 1929-31) Joan Titus; 6. Shostakovich's politics of D minor and its neighbours, 1931-49 Patrick McCreless; 7. Shostakovich and 'polyphonic' creativity: the Fourteenth Symphony revisited Kristian Hibberd; 8. The poet's echo, the composer's voice: monologic verse or dialogic song? Philip Ross Bullock; Part III. Context: 9. 'Muddle instead of music' in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration Simo Mikkonen; 10. Shostakovich and Dolmatovsky: a last memoir Pauline Fairclough; 11. Shostakovich, Proletkul't and RAPM Levon Hakobian.
Riassunto
Reflecting the recent transformation in Shostakovich studies, an international team of scholars sheds new light on Dmitri Shostakovich's life and work. Essays range from detailed documentary studies of his private diary and his lost opera Orango to historical accounts of what really happened behind the scenes of the Composers' Union.
