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Dmitri Shostakovich

(1906- 1975)

Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist. He achieved fame in the Soviet Union, although later developed a more complex and difficult relationship with the government. As a composer, he combined a variety of different musical techniques into his works, and his music is characterised by sharp contrast, grotesque elements, and ambivalent tonality. 

 

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Related Songs

Composed Title
? Black eyes (Op. 100)
1948 Broshennyi otets, 'An abandoned father' (Op. 79 no.6)
1967 Burja (Op. 127)
1942 Dzhenni, 'Jenny' (Op. 62)
? Farewell, Granada (Op.100)
1936 Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin (Op. 46)
1951 Four Songs to Words by Evgeny Dolmatovsky (Op. 86)
1948 From Jewish Folk Poetry (Op. 79)
1967 Gamajun ptica veshchaja (Op.127)
1967 Gorod spit (Op. 127)
1956 Ispanskije Pesni, 'Spanish Songs' (Op. 100)
1936 Iunoshu, gor’ko rydaia, 'A youth and a maiden' (Op. 46 no.2)
1948 Khoroshaja zhizn, 'The good life' (Op. 79 no.9)
1948 Kolybel’naya, 'Lullaby' (Op. 79 no.3)
1942 Korolevskij pokhod, 'The King's Campaign' (Op. 62)
1942 Makferson pered kazn'ju, 'Macpherson's Farewell' (Op. 62)
1973 Moi stikhi, 'To my verses' (Op. 143)
1967 Muzyka (Op. 127)
1967 My byli vmeste (Op. 127)
1948 Pesnja o nuzhde, 'Song of want' (Op. 79 no.7)
1967 Pesnja Ofelii (Op. 127)
1936 Predchuvstvie, 'Foreboding' (Op. 46 no.3)
1951 Rodina slyshit, 'The motherland hears' (Op. 86)
1955 Romance (from The Gadfly) (Op. 97)
? Round dance (Op.100)
1967 Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok (Op. 127)
1973 Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, 'Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva' (Op. 143)
1942 Six Romances on Verses by English Poets (Op. 62)
1956 Son, 'Dream' (Op. 100)
1942 Sonet LXVI, 'Sonnet 66' (Op. 62)
? Spanish Songs (Op. 100)
1936 Stantsy, 'Stanzas' (Op. 46 no.4)
1967 Tajnyje znaki (Op. 127)
1955 The Gadfly (Op. 97)
1942 V poljakh pod snegom i dozhdjom, 'O, wert thou in the cauld blast' (Op. 62)
1936 Vozrozhdenie, 'Rebirth' (Op. 46 no.1)

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