12th Symphony (Shostakovich)

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The 12th Symphony in D minor, Op. 112, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1960/1961 and is subtitled The Year 1917 and the dedication In memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin .

The work was on October 1, 1961 before the XXII. CPSU party conference premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Yevgeny Maravinsky . On the occasion of the premiere, Shostakovich was accepted into the CPSU .

shape

The symphony has a total playing time of about 40 minutes and is divided into the following four movements, which flow into one another without a break:

  • Revolutionary Petrograd (14 min), Moderato / Allegro
  • Rasliv (10 min), Allegro / Adagio (Razliv was a refuge of Lenin)
  • Aurora (6 min), Allegro
  • Dawn of Humanity (10 min), (Allegro / Allegretto)

literature

  • Robert Simpson (Ed.): The Symphony. Volume 2: Mahler to the Present Day . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1972, ISBN 0-7153-5524-4 .
  • Solomon Volkov: Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich . Harper & Row, New York 1979, ISBN 0-06-014476-9 .
  • Michael Steinberg: The Symphony . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-506177-2 .
  • Laurel E. Fay: Shostakovich: A Life . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2005, ISBN 0-19-518251-0 .
  • Francis Maes: A History of Russian Music. From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar . University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 2002, ISBN 0-520-21815-9 .
  • Elizabeth Wilson: Shostakovich: A Life Remembered . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006, ISBN 0-691-12886-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annotated catalog raisonné, Sikorski-Verlag (English; PDF; 2.4 MB; accessed on July 10, 2015)
  2. ↑ Sarah Cunningham: Remembering Laughter and Tears in a Drawer Music as a Response to Soviet Repression (PDF, 491 kB)