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Shostakovich’s First at 100 – how prodigious genius sounded before Stalin set about silencing it
The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first teenage symphony, as the chill of Stalinism settled on his music ...
It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...
The symphony lives at the core of classical music. CPR Classical focuses on the robust 150 year period when key composers created the foundational architecture of the symphony. What is a symphony and ...
A photo of Brahms from 1876, the year he composed his "Symphony no. 1", taken from his personal photo collection. Led by Sir Gilbert Levine, the concert celebrated the canonization of two recent Popes ...
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