David haas shostakovich biography

David Haas, Professor, obtained his Ph.D.
As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic.
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the greatest composers of 20th century, famous for his piano and violin compositions.

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A Shostakovich Companion

The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich

The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years

A Shostakovich Companion
by Michael Mishra
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Press (June 2008)
ISBN-10: 031330503X
ISBN-13: 978-0313305030

Contents:

I. SHOSTAKOVICH RECEPTION
Michael Mishra
1. Shostakovich Reception History
2. On Shostakovich
3. The Testimony Debate

II. THE LIFE AND STYLISTIC EVOLUTION OF SHOSTAKOVICH
Michael Mishra
4. Youth, Revolution, and Fame (1906-1926)
5. The Modernist and the Iconoclast (1926-1931)
6. Rise and Fall, Fall and Rise (1932-1937)
7. Maturity (1938-1947)
8. “DSCH” (1948-1953)
9. The State Composer: Compromise and Dissent (1954-1965)
10. “I Lived On … in the Hearts of My True Friends” (1966-1975)

III. ANALYZING SHOSTAKOVICH
11. Shostakovich the Dramatist: The Nose and The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
James Morgan
12. Shostakovich and Wozzeck‘s Secret: Toward the For mation of a “Shostakovich Mode”
David Haas
13. Shostakovich’s “Trademark” Form:

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Leningrad's Modernists: Studies in Composition and Musical Thought, 1917-1932

For a half century and more Dmitri Shostakovich and many other Soviet musicians drew inspiration from the brief period of high modernism in which they began their careers. Controversial in its own day, the modernist movement in Leningrad has been debated ever since, first within and now outside of Russia, to the point of obscuring the nature of the achievement and leaving essential questions unanswered. This book returns to the period itself to explore the issues, the creative personalities, the thought, and the music. From these studies the reader will gain a new perspective on music in the early Soviet period and insight into its lasting consequences for twentieth-century music.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Soviet composer and pianist (1906–1975)

"Shostakovich" redirects here. For other uses, see Shostakovich (disambiguation).

Dmitri Shostakovich
Shostakovich in 1942
Born	(1906-09-25)25 September 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died	9 August 1975(1975-08-09) (aged 68) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupations
Works	List of compositions
Spouses	Nina Varzar (m. 1932; died 1954) Margarita Kainova (m. 1956; div. 1959) Irina Supinskaya (m. 1962)
Children

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich^[a]^[b] (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist^[1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relations