September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Dmitri Shostakovich was a young musical genius who came of age shortly after the Russian Revolution. He was politicized for most of his life—not because of his political leanings (which are debated even today), but because of the highly charged environment that constantly surrounded him. Unlike other Russian composers who fled their homeland, Shostakovich engaged in a lifelong struggle to get along with the political system while being true to his gifts—a choice that landed him alternately in favor and disrepute with the Soviet regime multiple times.
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