... life. The next thing that got Shostakovich into trouble was ironically the piece that had first seemed his greatest success. His opera, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"." The piece challenged and excited the audience. The music was different and the plot was racy and exciting as well. Everyone ... 's brilliant solution to his artistic ideological crisis. Instead of writing a piece in the party approved, super simple, ultranationalist style, he wrote a symphony based on the model pioneered by one of the few unforbidden composers, Beethoven. Like Beethoven, Shostakovich started his symphony with ...

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