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Volume I. The use of quotation in Sonata for Viola and Piano and Symphony No. 15 as examples of late style in Shostakovich. Volume II. Requiem
Dwayne Steven Milburn
Paperback. ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing 2011-09-08.
ISBN 9781243737847
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Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich remains one of the more enigmatic figures in the music of the Twentieth Century. Rising to prominence shortly after the Russian Revolution, he was alternately praised and vilified by the Soviet government. Enduring a constant cycle of artistic freeze and thaw, he survived an ever-present threat to his life by producing the types of compositions the government required. His visible capitulation to the communist government rendered him inconsequential to a Western world that had neither the full knowledge of his personal situation nor the ability to look past the stereotypical view of all things Soviet in order to understand the lengths to which he went to protect his artistic integrity. Yet, in this environment he managed to craft music of extraordinary emotional power, especially those works completed towards the end of his life that featured quotations of his own works alongside famous and recognizable works from the Western canon. With Shostakovich's death in 1975 came an escalation of the final process of rehabilitation of the composer's national and international reputation. Shortly before, the Soviet government renamed a peninsula in his honor and plans were made to issue a book of essays and a commemorative stamp to coincide with what was to be his 70th birthday. The 1979 publication of the Solomon Volkov's Testimony, purported to be Shostakovich's personal diaries and recollections, fed the desire of the West to believe that the composer was a secret dissident and therefore worthy of renewed interest. These approaches are flawed by an inside-out approach that assumes subjective knowledge that may not be true. Application of Late Style Theory as a more objective model in order to begin to illuminate Shostakovich's late works is useful in that it takes the composer's biography into account while maintaining a degree of skepticism. Further, the use of this theory may also lead to a more objective understanding of his entire career
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