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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784726003321

Autore

Fay Laurel E

Titolo

Shostakovich [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Laurel E. Fay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-772907-X

0-19-988115-4

0-19-518251-0

1-280-53087-1

0-19-535072-3

1-4294-0479-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 p.)

Disciplina

780.92

780.92B

780/.92 B

Soggetti

Composers - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes list of works and glossary of names.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-422) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Childhood (1906-1919); 2 Conservatory (1919-1926); 3 Spreading Wings (1926-1928); 4 Pioneer (1929-1932); 5 Tragedy-Satire (1932-1936); 6 Crisis (1936-1937); 7 Reprieve (1938-1941); 8 The War Years (1941-1944); 9 ""Victory"" (1945-1948); 10 Public and Private (1948-1953); 11 The Thaw (1953-1958); 12 Consolidation (1958-1961); 13 Renewal (1961-1966); 14 Jubilees (1966-1969); 15 Immortality (1970-1975); Notes; List of Works; Glossary of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S

TU; V; Y; Z; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

For this post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries.