In 1935, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote music for what seemed to be a happy-go-lucky ballet. But the official Soviet response was to condemn Shostakovich, and to kill one of his creative colleagues. The ...

A video featuring the great composer at the keys has come to light, and his playing is as incredibly virtuosic and mind-blowingly fast as we had hoped. A video has come to light, featuring the great ...

For the majority of his composing career, Shostakovich wrote his music in the shadow of the oppressive communist regime of his day. Many of the Russian composer’s works are taut, angst-ridden and ...

Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. After studying at music college, Shostakovich embarked on a ...

25 September 2006 marks the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth. The great Russian composer, who died on 9 August 1975, produced his First Symphony at the age of 19, taught at the Moscow and ...

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Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera. Thanks to playwright James Glossman and musician ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some composers can be relied on for a pithy quote. Ask Pierre Boulez his thoughts about the music of Dmitri ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was inspired by an unflinching poem about the ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ at Babi Yar in Ukraine, one of the biggest massacres of World War Two. Lucy Ash pieces ...