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       Shostakovich
       By: Gregory Date: January 30, 2023, 9:03 am
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       He's one of my favourite Russian and twentieth century
       composers. I'm currently reading a new book by M.T. Anderson
       called 'Symphony For The City Of The Dead' which is centred on
       the German siege of Leningrad between 1941 and 1944, the
       composer's home city, when hundreds of thousands of people
       starved to death and survivors often resorted to cannibalism
       with corpses of the dead in the streets. Shostakovich composed
       his Seventh Symphony, 'Leningrad', during the siege and it was
       performed there under the most rigorous conditions in August
       1942, the symphony being the centrepiece of the book.
       Shostakovich had many run ins with Stalin and feared for his
       life during the Great Purge of 1937/38. He outlived the
       dictator, though, dying in 1975.
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