People s Artist of the U S S R composer Dmitry Shostakovich with his wife Irina right strolling


People s Artist of the U S S R composer Dmitry Shostakovich with his wife Irina right strolling

The composer's widow, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, was in the audience, lending the performance a real sense of occasion. Originally envisioned to be a full three-act work with prologue, Shostakovich never got beyond the prologue, which was found in the composer's archives by musicologist Olga Disonskaya in 2004.


Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich with his wife Irina Dmitri Shostakovich, Steve

Often, Irina Antonovna was the first person with whom he shared his new works, at the piano. He dedicated his Suite on Verses of Michelangelo to her because she had assisted, at the typewriter, in the composition of this work.. Irina Shostakovich: interviews, 2006/07. Post by barney » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:34 am Thanks for these posts. I read.


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The Russian literary scholar Irina Antonovna Shostakovich (b. 1934) was the composer's third wife. They married in 1962. [Interview translated from the Russian] How would you explain the development of a friendship and creative relationship between Britten and Shostakovich?


Música e Historia (81) IRINA ANTONOVNA, LA ESPOSA JUDIA DE SHOSTAKOVICH

Meyer continues: "In any case, a few days after his marriage to Irina Antonovna (autumn 1962), […] his wife was clearly told (as she told): 'Your husband's illness is incurable.' In the years.


Dmitri Shostakovich and Andrei Eshpai. 1960s. © 2009 Irina Antonovna Shostakovich Dmitri

The String Quartet no. 9 in E flat major, opus 117, and the Tenth String Quartet were written within three months of each other in the middle of 1964. Together they mark the transition from the central phase of Shostakovich's string quartets, to those of his final phase: the quartets 11 to 15. Officially the Ninth Quartet was written between.


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Shostakovich with Rostropovich, Oistrakh, and Britten during the festival of British music in

A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews—many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union—to create a volume of essential reading.


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When Shostakovich Studies was published in 1995, archival research in the ex-Soviet Union was only just beginning. Since that time, research carried out in the Shostakovich Family Archive, founded by the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in 1975, and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture has significantly raised the level of international Shostakovich studies.


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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich dedicated his String Quartet No.7 Op.108, written in 1960, to the memory of his first wife, Nina Vazar, and the String Quartet No.9 Op.117 to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Supinskaya, whom he married in 1962. The composer's private and artistic life had been devastated by the loss of


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Irina Antonovna SHOSTAKOVICH was born in Leningrad on November 30th, 1934. She later studied Russian Language and Litterature at the Pedagogical Institute. She worked in music publishing until 1964 as a literary editor.


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Irina Antonovna Shostakovich is the third wife of Dmitri Shostakovich. Birth. 1935. Saint Petersburg. Nationality. Russia. Marriage. Spouse: Dmitri Shostakovich Dec 1962.


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Mutual admiration. Dmitri Shostakovich (left) with Benjamin Britten in 1966. Photograph: RIA Novosti Classical music Rebels with a cause: the friendship of Britten and Shostakovich The two.


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The Ninth Quartet was dedicated to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, a young editor he married in 1962. Background The final version of the Ninth Quartet was preceded by another which Shostakovich admitted to partially destroying: [I]n an attack of healthy self-criticism, I burnt it in the stove.


Pedro Beltrán / Irina Antonovna, la esposa judia de Shostakovich

The String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat, Op. 117 comes just a bit after the middle of the cycle marked by his most celebrated quartet, the String Quartet No. 8 of 1960. It may have been a difficult act to follow. Shostakovich started to compose his next quartet in 1961, a work he once confided was based on "themes from childhood", but reached an.


Dmitri Shostakovich, 20th Century Music, Classical Music Composers, Anzio, In The Flesh, Real

Composers #82 Musicians #761 Quick Facts Also Known As: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Died At Age: 68 Family: Spouse/Ex-: Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich (m. 1962-1975), Margarita Kainova (m. 1956-1960), Nina Vassilyevna Varzar (m. 1932-1954) father: Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich mother: Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina


The Classical Reviewer Pianist, Irina Chukovskaya provides an impressive recital for Melodiya

To Irina Antonovna Shostakovich 6 I Moderato con moto - 4:22 7 II Adagio - 4:32 8 III Allegretto - 4:14 9 IV Adagio - 3:03 10 V Allegro 10:03 String Quartet No. 10, Op. 118 (1964) 25:24 in A flat major • in As-Dur • en la bémol majeur To Moisey [Mieczysław] Samuilovich Weinberg 11 I Andante 4:25 12 II Allegretto furioso 4:04

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