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Shostakovich : a life remembered / Elizabeth Wilson.

By: Wilson, Elizabeth, 1947- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber Limited, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: New edition.Description: xxiv, 631 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0571220509 (paperback); 9780571220502.Subject(s): Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 | Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Childhood and youth | Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation | Composers -- Soviet Union -- Biography | Music -- Soviet Union -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 780.92 SHO
Contents:
Childhood and youth -- The young composer established -- Criticism and the response to criticism -- The war years- a respite -- The final years of Stalinism -- The thaw -- Regeneration -- The last years.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A new edition of Elizabeth Wilson's new study of Shostakovich, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth

First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Faber and Faber Limited.

Biographical notes: (pages 541-572)

The first cello concerto: (pages 538-540)

Bibliography: (pages 573-589) and index.

Childhood and youth -- The young composer established -- Criticism and the response to criticism -- The war years- a respite -- The final years of Stalinism -- The thaw -- Regeneration -- The last years.

Alan Cutts Collection.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Elizabeth Wilson is a professor of cultural studies at the University of North London. She has published several books, including The Sphinx in the City and Hallucinations: Life in the Post-Modern City.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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