Leningrad : siege and symphony / Brian Moynahan.
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TextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2014]Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2014Description: 542 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 9780802123169
- Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies. no. 7, op. 60
- Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies,. no. 7, op. 60
- Symphony -- Soviet Union
- Music and war -- Soviet Union -- History
- Music and state -- Soviet Union
- Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
- Music -- Soviet Union -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Symphony -- History and criticism
- Music -- Political aspects
- Music -- Russia -- History and criticism
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Intellectual life
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Intellectual life
- 780.92 23
- 780.92 15
- ML410.S53 M69 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-520) and index.
Recounts the 1942 performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony during the siege of Leningrad, placing it in the context of the city's intellectual and social life and its sufferings from Stalinist terror as much as from the Nazi invasion.
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