Dmitri Shostakovich in Russia - at the end of the 1960's
from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 160:
The day before I went into hospital I was listening to Mussorgsky’s 'Songs and Dances of Death', and idea of addressing the question of death finally came to fruition in me.
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Dmitri Shostakovich / Isaac Glikman, Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman (Queen Square, London, 2001), p. 160. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431432361040 accessed: 1 December, 2024
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Songs and Dances of Death
written by Modest Mussorgsky |
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| Date/Time | at the end of the 1960's |
| Medium | playback |
Notes
Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 19 March 1969, Moscow.
Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 13:06:01 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:26:35 +0000