Shostakovich by Elizabeth Wilson
A Life Remembered
An oral history portrait of the composer built from interviews, memoirs, and archival sources, tracing his childhood, meteoric rise, and decades of artistic survival under Soviet power. Through vivid eyewitness accounts, it explores his working methods, friendships, and private anxieties, the pressures of censorship and terror, and the complex, often contradictory ways he navigated public conformity and inner dissent. The narrative also reexamines controversies surrounding his political stance and legacy, situating the music within the realities that shaped it.
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- 1994
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- British
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- English
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