Shostakovich and His World

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Note on Transliteration -- PART I DOCUMENTS -- Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927 -- Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process -- Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a &q...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Note on Transliteration -- PART I DOCUMENTS -- Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927 -- Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process -- Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a "Friend" -- "The Phenomenon of the Seventh": A Documentary Essay on Shostakovich's "War" Symphony -- PART II ESSAYS -- Shostakovich as Industrial Saboteur: Observations on The Bolt -- The Nose and the Fourteenth Symphony: An Affinity of Opposites -- Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition -- Fried Chicken in the Bird-Cherry Trees -- Shostakovich and His Pupils -- Shostakovich's "Twelve-Tone" Compositions and the Politics and Practice of Soviet Serialism -- Listening to Shostakovich -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS Ausführliche Beschreibung