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Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator
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ALFRED A KNOPF
Sivumäärä: 336 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2004, 01.03.2004 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti

"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 1979 memoir, "Testimony--describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer's life and work. <BR>Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the "holy fool" in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich's contemporaries--Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them--fell victim to Stalin's manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality. <BR>This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century's greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants.



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