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Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 •Family very liberal •Age 13- entered St. Petersburg Conservatory –Academically successful –Suffered for lack of political enthusiasm •Post Graduation - career as concert pianist and composer. •Labeled a “Formalist” by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians - Formalism: “any art which used complex techniques and forms accessible only to the elite, rather than being simplified for ‘the people’“ Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 • 1930’s- worked for a theatre company – Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District • 1936-Series of attacks in Pravda – Muddle Instead of Music • No commission= no $$$ – Responded with Symphony No. 5 Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 • • • • 1936- “The Great Terror” Symphonies=public Chamber=private (experimental, expressive) 1941-WW2 (St. Petersburg=Leningrad) – in Leningrad during siege – Began Symphony. No 7 “Leningrad” (heroic) • 1943- Moved to Moscow – 9th Symphony- Neoclassic parody Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 • Second Piano Trio – Dedicated to close friend Sollertinsky – Totentanz finale • 1948- Denounced again – Privileges taken away – Most works banned – Public repentance • 13 total symphonies • Late works show preoccupation of death