Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov, Dmitri Shostakovich

Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

Limelight

Solomon Volkov, Dmitri Shostakovich

238 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical history music politics
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This astounding self-portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) was prepared in collaboration with the distinguished Soviet musicologist Solomon Volkov. With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Rus...

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