Dmitri Shostakovich: biography of the great composer

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Dmitry Shostakovich, whose biography is of interest to many lovers of classical music – the famous Soviet composer, who became famous far beyond his native country.

Childhood Shostakovich

Born on 25 September 1906 in St. Petersburg in the family of pianist and chemist. Music that his family was an important part (father – a passionate music lover, mother - a teacher of piano), was fascinated from an early age: taciturn skinny boy, sitting behind a piano, turned into a daring musician. Shostakovich biographyHis first work “Soldiers” wrote 8 years of age, under the influence of permanent adult conversations about the outbreak of the First world war. Shostakovich, whose biography is a whole life was connected with music, became a student of the music school I. A. Glasser – a famous teacher. Although the basics of musical notation Dmitry introduced his mother.

Shostakovich: biography of the Soviet composer

In the life of Dmitry along with the music, always present love. For the first time the magic visited the young man at the age of 13: the object of love began a 10-year-old Natalia Cuba, which the musician dedicated a small prelude. But the feeling gradually faded, but the desire to dedicate our loved ones, their creations remained virtuoso pianist forever.Dmitry Shostakovich biography

After studying at a private school in 1919 Dmitri Shostakovich, whose biography is took professional music start, he entered the Petrograd Conservatory and successfully graduated in 1923 from two classes: composition and piano. At the same time, on his way he met new sympathy – beautiful Tatiana, Glivenko. The girl was the same age as the composer, good-looking, well-educated, cheerful, inspired Shostakovich to create the First Symphony, which upon graduation was commissioned as a thesis. Expressed in this work the depth of feeling was caused not only love, but a disease caused by many sleepless nights of the composer, his feelings and depression developing on the background of all this.

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Decent early musical career

The Premiere of the First Symphony, published across the world after many years, took place in 1926 in St. Petersburg. Music critics considered talented composer worthy replacement who emigrated from the country to Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky. This same Symphony and brought the young composer and virtuoso pianist of international fame. Speech at the First International competition of pianists named after Chopin in 1927, held in Warsaw, the unusual talent of Shostakovich drew the attention of one of the members of the jury Bruno Walter – Austrian-American composer and conductor. He suggested Dmitry to play something else, and when he began to sound the First Symphony, Walter asked the young composer to send him to Berlin score. November 22, 1927, the conductor performed this piece of music than glorified Shostakovich all over the world.

In 1927 a talented Shostakovich, whose biography has a lot of UPS and downs, inspired by the success of the First Symphony, began composing the Opera “Nose” on Gogol. Then was created the First piano Concerto, after which at the end of 20 years written two symphonies.

Matters of the heart

And what about Tatiana? She's like most unmarried girls have waited long enough for the proposals of marriage that timid Shostakovich experiencing exceptionally clean and bright feel to your inspiration, or did not realize, or did not dare to do. More nimble knight, encountered on the way Tatyana, took her to the altar; to him she bore a son. After three years Shostakovich chasing all this time is now someone else's lover, suggested Tatyana to be his wife. But she chose to completely terminate all relationships with talented fan caught up in life too timid.Shostakovich brief biography

Finally convinced that his beloved does not return, Shostakovich, whose biography is closely intertwined with music and amorous feelings, in the same year married Nina Varzar – a young student, with whom he lived for more than 20 years. The woman, who bore him two children, steadfastly endured all these years Hobbies husband's other women, his frequent infidelity and died before his beloved wife.

After the death of Nina Shostakovich, a brief biography which includes several masterpiece and world-famous works, created family twice: Margarita Casanovas and Irina Supinski. On the background of matters of the heart Dimitri never ceased to create, but in a relationship with music he was acting more decisively.

The waves of the mood of the authorities

In 1934 in Leningrad staged an Opera called "Lady of Mtsensk”, immediately adopted by the audience to “cheers”. However, after a season and a half of its existence was under threat: a piece of music was harshly criticized by the Soviet authorities and was removed from the repertoire. The premiere of the Fourth Symphony of Shostakovich, which was characterized by a more monumental scale in contrast to the previous, was to be held in 1936. Due to the unstable situation in the country and the bias of representativesstate power to people's creativity, the first performance of a musical work occurred in 1961. The 5th Symphony was released in 1937. During the great Patriotic war, Shostakovich began the 7th Symphony – “Leningrad”, first performed March 5, 1942.

From 1943 to 1948, Shostakovich was engaged in teaching at the Moscow Conservatory of the city of Moscow, from where they subsequently were expelled Stalinist authorities, who undertook “restore order” in the Union of composers, because incompetent. Released by Dmitry on time “correct” the product saved his position. Next, the composer's expected entry into the party (forced), and many other circumstances, all of which has had more UPS than downs.d Shostakovich biography

In Recent years, Shostakovich, whose biography is studied with interest by many music fans, was very ill, suffering from lung cancer. Became a composer in 1975. His ashes were buried in the Novodevichy cemetery of Moscow.

Today the works of Shostakovich, which embodies a strong internal human drama, transmitting a chronicle of the terrible mental suffering – the most performed throughout the world. The most popular are the Fifth and Eighth symphonies of the fifteen written. Of the string quartets, which is also fifteen, the most fulfilled Eighth and Fifteenth.


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