Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator by Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. Bouis

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

Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. Bouis

336 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective slow-paced
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“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...

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