The New Shostakovitch by Ian MacDonald
A provocative reassessment of Shostakovich that portrays the composer as a covert dissident, reading his symphonies and quartets as coded chronicles of life under Stalin. Blending biography, political history, and close musical analysis, it argues that irony, satire, and memorial lament thread through his oeuvre as acts of resistance, while also tracing the personal costs of survival in a terror state. Though controversial for its speculative leaps, it offers a vivid, emotionally charged narrative that reframes the music as a moral testimony of the Soviet century.
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- 1990
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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