Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich:
Cultural Icon and Lightning Rod
(25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975)

Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the world's great composers, author of 15 symphonies and 15 quartets, three operas and three ballets, numerous film scores, piano works, and song cycles--147 opus numbers in all.

From the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926--still a classic today--at the age of nineteen, to his death in 1975 at the age of sixty-eight, Dmitri Shostakovich and his compositions were in the vortex of Soviet cultural policy, praised or damned throughout a roller-coaster life.                 

NPR programs: 
Shostakhovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning
Shostakhovich, Man of Many Variations

American Public Media:
St Paul's Sunday Website

Dmitri Shostakovich Discography

Archive of past events           

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