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Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Holy Fool, the Chronicler, the Pretender...|By Paul Frandano|Let's skip the heroic mountain of (fascinating) details Solomon Volkov accumulates--aiming, I think, to please the most fastidious of his critics, who will never, I'm afraid, be pleased--and cut straight to what I perceive to be the importance of this history: Volkov reminds us, albeit without being directly able|From Publishers Weekly|Shostakovich's tortured relationship to the Soviet authorities was a main subject of Testimony, a book published after the composer's death by Volkov, who claimed that it contained Shostakovich's own remembrances. Controversy about the aut

“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov—who cowrote Shostakovich’s controversial...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r   |  Solomon Volkov. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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