Shostakovich is admitted to the Petrograd Conservatory. He studies piano with Leonid Nikolayev and composition with Maximilian Shteynberg. He also works with Glazunov. He writes his Opus 1.

Few among us do not wonder about our legacy. What will remain after we have departed a job or this life? Will we leave the ...

Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work, drawing attention to a ‘remarkable example of fidelity to the traditions of musical classicism, and ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It ...

But the short version is that this new work tells the many-layered story of the friendship between the great pianist, Maria Yudina, and the composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. It is written by Ian Kelly – ...

1990s Maltese band Shostakovich’s Nightmare will be playing with Welsh band Feeder on October 11 at Aria Club, San Ġwann. Gwen-Jane Agius talks to ANTONIO TUFIGNO, the band’s lead singer ...

Nor for his Russian predecessors, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, who cottoned onto the medium’s potential in the 1930s and 1940s ...

Solo cellist Pablo Ferrandez will also perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Also scheduled for this concert are ...

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