Arts, Music, Composition, Composers, S, Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich

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- Extensive source of information, with a particular focus on the Testimony issue.

- Discography and bibliography.
- Biographical sketch, caricature, and summaries of his stage works and his orchestral, choral and vocal, chamber, and piano music with recommended Naxos recordings.
- Filmography noting films he scored or which used his works plus biographical material and award nominations.
- Biography, photograph, links, and audio files from Classical Music MIDI Page.
- Includes extracts from the journal, classifieds and quiz.
- Brief biography, selected works, quotes, recommended recordings and readings, photograph, chronology, related articles, and links from Humanities Web.
- Biography, photographs, recommended recordings, books, scores, articles, works lists, and solicitation for suggestions.
- Biography noting studies and influences, political struggles, and evolution of style under Soviet Communism with works list from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- List of Preludes and Fugues op.87, with MIDI files and transcriptions, and other contrapuntal works, from 'KunstderFuge.com.'
- An account of his life and works from CollegeTermPapers.com.
- Article focusing on an English-language version of Cheryomushki by Opera North.
- Biography and soundtrack and concert reviews.
- Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.
- Literary text illustrating Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony, to be read while listening to the music. Includes life chronology and background on the composition.
- Details of performances, recordings and other events regarding this symphonic ensemble, currently embarked on a complete cycle of Shostakovich's symphonies. Plus programme notes and Shostakovich-related articles.
- Includes bibliography, pictures and some MIDI samples of the Preludes and Fugues, as well as texts from symphonies thirteen and fourteen.
- Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.
- Includes a general introduction and a discussion of the Testimony issue.
- Attacking the Testimony version of his life.
- Lists: links, opus numbers, bibliography, first performances.
- Article discussing the composer's life and works, plus the political controversies surrounding him.
- Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, illustrations, and MIDI audio files.
- Fan page with brief illustrated introduction.
- The complete twenty-four Preludes and Fugues in MIDI format.
- Find A Grave listing with biographical material, youthful photograph, and pictures of his grave with virtual memorial and related cemetery information.
- An informative site that discusses some of the major themes in Shostakovich's music, and how they relate to the political situation at the time they were composed.

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