Summary Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich
DMITRY DMITRIEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH
The genus. in 1906
Shostakovich is one of the greatest contemporary composers, an outstanding music and public figure, and a teacher. In the work of Shostakovich are represented all genres of musical art – opera and ballet, symphony and concerto, instrumental ensemble and romance, song and oratorio, operetta and music for cinema and theatrical productions. Shostakovich’s music is characterized by high citizenship, the sharpness of conflicts, emotional tension. The tremendous, sometimes tragic contradictions of the modern world, the continuing struggle of the creative and destructive forces of life, the bright humanistic ideals of freedom and justice found in his person a talented interpreter. The musical style of Shostakovich is bright and original. In the rich alloy of various elements, the main place is occupied by the influence of Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, and of foreign composers – Mahler,
Dmitri Shostakovich
Since that time the central place in Shostakovich’s work is occupied by a symphony; The fifth (1937), the Seventh, the Leningrad (1941), the Eighth (1943), and the piano trio (1943) are particularly notable for the breadth and significance of the ideological concepts. At the turn of the 40s and 50s, the vocal and vocal symphonic genres, represented by the cycle “From Jewish Folk Poetry” (1948), the oratorio “Song of the Forests” (1949), the Ten poems for the unaccompanied chorus the words of poets-revolutionaries (1951). The largest works of the postwar period – the Tenth (1953), the Eleventh “1905” (1957), the Twelfth (“Lenin”, 1960), the Thirteenth Symphony (for the poems of Evgeny Evtushenko, 1962), violin (1948) and cello (1959) concerts, 24 preludes and fugues for piano (1951),
Heading the class composition in the Leningrad (1937-1941) and Moscow (1943-1948) Conservatory, Shostakovich raised a number of talented Soviet composers.
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