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Author Fay, Laurel E., author.

Title Shostakovich : a life / Laurel E. Fay
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Childhood (1906-1919); 2 Conservatory (1919-1926); 3 Spreading Wings (1926-1928); 4 Pioneer (1929-1932); 5 Tragedy-Satire (1932-1936); 6 Crisis (1936-1937); 7 Reprieve (1938-1941); 8 The War Years (1941-1944); 9 ""Victory"" (1945-1948); 10 Public and Private (1948-1953); 11 The Thaw (1953-1958); 12 Consolidation (1958-1961); 13 Renewal (1961-1966); 14 Jubilees (1966-1969); 15 Immortality (1970-1975); Notes; List of Works; Glossary of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S
TU; V; Y; Z; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary For this post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries
Notes Includes list of works and glossary of names
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-422) and index
Notes English
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Subject Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
SUBJECT Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 fast
Šostakovič, Dmitrij D. swd
Subject Composers -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Composers -- Russia -- Biography
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
Composers
Russia
Soviet Union
4.935.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99025255
ISBN 1429404795
9781429404792
0195182510
9780195182514
1280530871
9781280530876
0195350723
9780195350722