1. The Life and Music of Dimitri Shostakovich
... whose work endangered and corrupted the spirit of the soviet people. Over night, he went from being Russia's golden boy composer, to the border lines of being a non-person. Fearing exile to a Gulag prison camp, Shostakovich was writing for his life. He had to start writing pieces that showed that he could write politically accepted music. The results were his 4th ... ...
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