Shostakovich : a life / Laurel E. Fay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fay, Laurel E., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich.

Composers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For this biography the author has used many primary documents; Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes, newspaper articles and diaries of his contemporaries. Showing his life as an example of the paradoxes of living as an artist in Russia.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-422) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9780197729076

019772907X

9780199881154

0199881154

9780195182514

0195182510

9781280530876

1280530871

9780195350722

0195350723

9781429404792

1429404795

OCLC:

466433033

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05553 hdl