Shostakovich and Stalin : the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator /
"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 la...
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Main Author: | Volkov, Solomon |
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Other Authors: | Bouis, Antonina W. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English Russian |
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London :
Little Brown,
2004.
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