KnowraDmitri ShostakovichLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Dmitri Shostakovich, each with the reason it gives.All 21Broader topic 3Related 16Compared with 2Sergei EisensteinRelated: Shostakovich composed music for Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible films.Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRelated: Shostakovich later orchestrated Rimsky-Korsakov's unfinished opera Kashchey the Immortal.CelloRelated: His concertos brought the cello into forceful dialogue with modern orchestral writing.LeningradRelated: His music gave the besieged city an enduring artistic emblem.Sergei ProkofievCompared with: His later Soviet career offers a revealing comparison with Prokofiev’s changing relationship to official culture.People's Artist of the USSRBroader topic: Shostakovich received the title in recognition of his prominence as a composer.Saint Petersburg ConservatoryRelated: He studied piano and composition at the conservatory before graduating in 1925.Andrei ZhdanovBroader topic: The 1948 campaign against Shostakovich extended Zhdanov’s cultural discipline to music.Sviatoslav RichterRelated: Richter’s performances of Shostakovich’s piano music grew from a close artistic friendship.Alexander GlazunovRelated: Glazunov taught Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory and supported his early development.Mstislav RostropovichRelated: Shostakovich taught Rostropovich composition and wrote cello works for him.David OistrakhRelated: Shostakovich dedicated his first violin concerto to Oistrakh, who gave its premiere.Aram KhachaturianRelated: His career offers a distinct counterpart to Khachaturian’s under Soviet cultural policy.Ilya EhrenburgRelated: Like Ehrenburg, Shostakovich negotiated artistic expression under shifting state pressure.Vera MukhinaRelated: Mukhina made a sculpted portrait of Shostakovich, connecting her work to a leading contemporary composer.Vladimir AshkenazyRelated: Ashkenazy performed and recorded Shostakovich's piano concertos and symphonies.Yevgeny MravinskyRelated: Mravinsky premiered several of Shostakovich’s symphonies, including the Fifth and Eighth.20th-century classical musicRelated: His music negotiated modernist expression within the pressures of Soviet cultural politics.Curse of the NinthCompared with: His completion of fifteen symphonies makes the supposed ninth-symphony limit untenable.Music of RussiaBroader topic: His music reveals the pressures Soviet institutions exerted on composers.Nikolai LeskovRelated: His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District brought Leskov’s novella to a new audience.
KnowraDmitri ShostakovichLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Dmitri Shostakovich, each with the reason it gives.All 21Broader topic 3Related 16Compared with 2Sergei EisensteinRelated: Shostakovich composed music for Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible films.Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRelated: Shostakovich later orchestrated Rimsky-Korsakov's unfinished opera Kashchey the Immortal.CelloRelated: His concertos brought the cello into forceful dialogue with modern orchestral writing.LeningradRelated: His music gave the besieged city an enduring artistic emblem.Sergei ProkofievCompared with: His later Soviet career offers a revealing comparison with Prokofiev’s changing relationship to official culture.People's Artist of the USSRBroader topic: Shostakovich received the title in recognition of his prominence as a composer.Saint Petersburg ConservatoryRelated: He studied piano and composition at the conservatory before graduating in 1925.Andrei ZhdanovBroader topic: The 1948 campaign against Shostakovich extended Zhdanov’s cultural discipline to music.Sviatoslav RichterRelated: Richter’s performances of Shostakovich’s piano music grew from a close artistic friendship.Alexander GlazunovRelated: Glazunov taught Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory and supported his early development.Mstislav RostropovichRelated: Shostakovich taught Rostropovich composition and wrote cello works for him.David OistrakhRelated: Shostakovich dedicated his first violin concerto to Oistrakh, who gave its premiere.Aram KhachaturianRelated: His career offers a distinct counterpart to Khachaturian’s under Soviet cultural policy.Ilya EhrenburgRelated: Like Ehrenburg, Shostakovich negotiated artistic expression under shifting state pressure.Vera MukhinaRelated: Mukhina made a sculpted portrait of Shostakovich, connecting her work to a leading contemporary composer.Vladimir AshkenazyRelated: Ashkenazy performed and recorded Shostakovich's piano concertos and symphonies.Yevgeny MravinskyRelated: Mravinsky premiered several of Shostakovich’s symphonies, including the Fifth and Eighth.20th-century classical musicRelated: His music negotiated modernist expression within the pressures of Soviet cultural politics.Curse of the NinthCompared with: His completion of fifteen symphonies makes the supposed ninth-symphony limit untenable.Music of RussiaBroader topic: His music reveals the pressures Soviet institutions exerted on composers.Nikolai LeskovRelated: His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District brought Leskov’s novella to a new audience.