12th Symphony (Shostakovich)
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
- Tilmann Heiland: Dmitrij Schostakowitsch. Symphony No.12 in D minor, Op. 122 (The year 1917) . Teaching material. SWR School Classix 2014 (PDF; 780 kB)
- Anja Städler: Sofia Gubaidulina: Glorious Percussion; Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112. Teaching material for the dress rehearsal of the Berlin Philharmonic on September 17, 2009 . Zukunft @ BPhil The Berlin Philharmonic's Education Program (PDF; 201 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annotated catalog raisonné, Sikorski-Verlag (English; PDF; 2.4 MB; accessed on July 10, 2015)
- ↑ Sarah Cunningham: Remembering Laughter and Tears in a Drawer Music as a Response to Soviet Repression (PDF, 491 kB)