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Shostakovich
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Types

Russia
Sep 25, 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 9, 1975 in Moscow, Russia
Modern
All Works (268)
Keyboard Music (68)
Orchestral Music (66)
Film Music (35)
Chamber Music (27)
Vocal Music (22)
Symphony (16)
Opera (9)
Choral Music (8)
Concerto (6)
Ballet Music (5)
Band Music (3)
Music Theater (1)

Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer whose symphonies and

quartets, numbering 15 each, are among the greatest of the twentiethcentury music. His style evolved from the brash humor and
experimental character of his first period, exemplified by the operas
The Nose and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, into both the more
introverted melancholy and nationalistic fervor of his second phase
(the Symphonies No. 5 and No. 7, "Leningrad"), and finally into the
defiant and bleak mood of his last period (exemplified by the
Symphony No. 14 and Quartet No. 15). Early in his career his music
showed the influence of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, especially in his
prodigious and highly successful First Symphony. He could effectively
communicate a melancholic depth and profound sense of anguish, as
one hears in many of his symphonies, concertos, and quartets.
Solomon Volkov, in his controversial Testimony: The Memoirs of
Dmitri Shostakovich explains the composer's seeming bombast as
deft satire of the pomposity of the Soviet state, pointing to the "forced
rejoicing" of Fifth Symphony's ending. Typical traits of Shostakovich's
style include short reiterated melodic or rhythmic figures, motifs of
one or two pitches or intervals, and lugubrious and manic string writing.
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, in 1906, and educated at the
Petrograd Conservatory. The acid style of his early Lady Macbeth at Mtsensk irritated Stalin, and
Shostakovich was attacked in the Soviet press. Fearing imprisonment, he withdrew his already
rehearsed Fourth Symphony; his Fifth Symphony (1937) carried the subtitle "A Soviet Artist's
Reply to Just Criticism." It is more ingenious than most critics have fathomed, for it managed to
satisfy both the backward tastes of the party censors and those of more demanding aesthetes in
the West.
The 1941 German invasion of Russia inspired the composer's Seventh Symphony, subtitled
"Leningrad." Impressed by the symphony's epic-heroic character, Toscanini, Koussevitsky, and

Stokowski vied for the Western Hemisphere premiere; the score had to be microfilmed, flown to
Teheran, driven to Cairo, and flown out. The work became an enormous success the world over,
but eventually fell into obscurity. Still, the composer had for a time become a worldwide celebrity,
his picture even appearing on the cover of Time.
Shostakovich ran afoul of the government again in 1948, when an infamous decree was
issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party accusing Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and
other prominent composers of "formalist perversions." For some time he wrote mostly works
glorifying Soviet life or history. Artistic repression diminished in post-Stalinist Russia, but
curiously Shostakovich still drew in his modernist horns until the Thirteenth Symphony ("Babi
Yar"), a 1962 work based on poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The work provoked major
controversy because of its first movement's subject: Russian oppression of the Jews.
In 1966 Shostakovich wrote his Second Cello Concerto, a work on an even higher level
than his solid First, but one which has yet to capture as much attention from either artists or the
public. That year, Shostakovich was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. He continued to
compose, his works growing more sparsely scored and darker, the subject of death becoming
prominent. His Fourteenth Symphony (1969), really a collection of songs on texts by Lorca,
Apollinaire, Kchelbecker, and Rilke, is a death-obsessed work of considerable dissonance and
showing little regard for the Socialist Realism still demanded by the state. Shostakovich died on
9 August 1975. -- All Music Guide

Keyboard
1927
1945
1953
1952
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1920
1917
1949 54
1935;
1962
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1950 -

Aphorisms (10), for piano, Op. 13

A Child's Excercise Book (Children's Tetrad), for
piano, Op. 69
Concertino, for 2 pianos, Op. 94
Dances of the Dolls (7), suite for piano (arr. from
the ballet suites for orchestra)

Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous
Work for Keyboard
Collection of Etudes, Studies, or Exercises
for Keyboard
Music for Two Keyboards
Suite/Partita for Keyboard

Early Piano Pieces (3)

Music for Keyboard

Fantastic Dances (3), for piano, Op. 5

Funeral March, for piano (found in 1984)

Suite/Partita for Keyboard

March for Keyboard

Piano Duets for Children (3)

Music for Four Hands at One Keyboard

Polka, version for piano solo or piano duet

arranged from "The Golden Age"
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 1 in C major, Op.
87/1
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 2 in A minor, Op.
87/2
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 3 in G major, Op.
87/3
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 4 in E minor, Op.
87/4
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 5 in D major, Op.
87/5
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 6 in B minor, Op.
87/6
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 7 in A major, Op.
87/7
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 8 in F sharp minor,
Op. 87/8
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 9 in E major, Op.

Polka for Keyboard

Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard

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1932

87/9
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 10 in C sharp minor,
Op. 87/10
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 11 in B major, Op.
87/11
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 12 in G sharp minor,
Op. 87/12
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 13 in F sharp major,
Op. 87/13
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 14 in E flat minor,
Op. 87/14
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 15 in D flat major,
Op. 87/15
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 16 in B flat minor,
Op. 87/16
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 17 in A flat major,
Op. 87/17
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 18 in F minor, Op.
87/18
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 19 in E flat major,
Op. 87/19
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 20 in C minor, Op.
87/20
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 21 in B flat major,
Op. 87/21
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 22 in G minor, Op.
87/22
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 23 in F major, Op.
87/23
Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 24 in D minor, Op.
87/24

Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard

Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard
Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in A flat major, Op. 34/17

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in A major, Op. 34/7

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in A minor, Op. 34/2

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in B flat major, Op. 34/21

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in B flat minor, Op. 34/16

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in B minor, Op. 34/6

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in C major, Op. 34/1

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in C minor, Op. 34/20

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in C sharp minor, Op. 34/10

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in C sharp minor, Op. 34/11

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in D flat major, Op. 34/15

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in D major ("Velocity etude"), Op. Prelude for Keyboard

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34/5

1926

Sonata for piano No. 1 (October Symphony), Op. 12

1942

Sonata for piano No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 61

1922

Suite, for 2 pianos, in F sharp minor, Op. 6

Tarantella, for 2 pianos (arr. from film suite "The
Gadfly")
Transcription for piano of the comic waltz from
"The Baroness and the Hooligan"
Transcription for piano of the polka from "The
Golden Age"
Transcription for piano of the romance from "The
Gadfly"

1963

Prelude for piano, in D minor, Op. 34/24

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in E flat major, Op. 34/19

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in E flat minor ("Zoya prelude"),

Prelude for Keyboard
Op. 34/14
Prelude for piano, in E major, Op. 34/9

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in E minor, Op. 34/4

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in F major, Op. 34/23

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in F minor, Op. 34/18

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in F sharp major, Op. 34/13

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in F sharp minor (Allegretto), Op.

Prelude for Keyboard
34/8
Prelude for piano, in G major, Op. 34/3

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in G minor (Adagio), Op. 34/22

Prelude for Keyboard

Prelude for piano, in G sharp minor, Op. 34/12

Prelude for Keyboard

Preludes & Fugues (24), for piano, Op. 87

Prelude and Fugue for Keyboard

Preludes (5) for piano (from collaborative work of

24 preludes with Clements & Feldt)

Prelude for Keyboard

Preludes (8), for piano, Op. 2

Prelude for Keyboard

Preludes (24), for piano, Op. 34

Prelude for Keyboard

20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for
Keyboard
20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for
Keyboard
Music for Two Keyboards
Music for Two Keyboards
Transcription for Keyboard
Transcription for Keyboard
Transcription for Keyboard

Chamber
1934

Moderato, for cello & piano, Op. 40b (until 1968

considered to be part of Sonata Op40)
Movements (2) for string quartet

1931
1924 Pieces (2) for double string quartet, Op. 11
25

Cello with Keyboard

Quartet for Four String Instruments
Octet for Eight String Instruments

1940

1940

Pieces (3) for 1 instrument, Op. 59 (withdrawn?)

Chamber Music
Pieces (5) for 2 violins & piano (arr. from theater music by
Chamber Music
Atovmian)
Quintet for Keyboard and Four String
Quintet for piano & strings, in G Minor, Op. 57
Instruments
Requiem for Strings, Op. 144bis (arranged by Rachlevsky Chamber Music for More than Nine
from String Quartet No. 15 )
String Instruments
Sonata for cello & piano, in D minor, Op. 40
Cello with Keyboard
Sonata for viola & piano, in C major, Op. 147
Viola with Keyboard
Sonata for violin & piano, Op. 134
Violin with Keyboard
String Quartet No 1, in C Major, Op. 49
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 2, in A Major, Op. 68
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 4, in D major, Op. 83
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 5, in B flat major, Op. 92
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 6, in G major, Op. 101
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 7, in F sharp Minor, Op. 108
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 9, in E flat major, Op. 117
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 10, in A flat, Op. 118
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 11, in F Minor, Op. 122
Quartet for Four String Instruments
String Quartet No 12, in D flat major, Op. 133
Quartet for Four String Instruments

1934
1975
1968
1938
1944
1949
1952
1956
1960
1964
1964
1966
1968
1969 String Quartet No 13, in B flat Minor, Op. 138
70
1973 String Quartet No 14, in F sharp major, Op. 142
1974 String Quartet No 15, in E flat Minor, Op. 144
String Quartets (15), complete
1923

Trio for piano & strings No. 1, in C minor, Op. 8

1944

Trio for piano & strings No. 2, in E Minor, Op. 67

Waltzes (4), for flute (or piccolo), clarinet & piano (arr.
from various pieces by Atovmyan)

Quartet for Four String Instruments

Quartet for Four String Instruments
Quartet for Four String Instruments
Quartet for Four String Instruments
Trio for Keyboard and Two String
Instruments
Trio for Keyboard and Two String
Instruments
Two Woodwinds with
Keyboard/Continuo

Orchestral
1940
1930
1949
1952

1933

1960

1949

The Adventures of Korzinkina (A Ticket to the Fifth Zone), suite

from the film score, Op. 59a (assembled by Rozhdestvensky)
The Age of Gold, suite from the ballet, Op. 22a
Ballet Suite No. 1, for orchestra (assembled by Atovmyan)
Ballet Suite No. 2, for orchestra (assembled by Atovmyan)
Ballet Suite No. 3, for orchestra (assembled by Atovmyan)
Ballet Suite No. 4, for orchestra (assembled by Atovmyan)
Belinsky, suite from the film score, Op.85a (assembled by
Atovmyan)
The Bolt, suite from the ballet, Op. 27a
Chamber Symphony, in A flat major, Op 118a (arranged by
Barshai from the String Quartet No. 10 )
Chamber Symphony, in C minor, Op 110a (arranged by Barshai
from the String Quartet No. 8 )
Chamber Symphony, in D major, Op 83a (arranged by Barshai
from the String Quartet No. 4)
Chamber Symphony, in F major, Op 73a (arr by Barshai from
String Quartet No. 3)
Encounter at the Elbe, suite from the film score, Op. 80a

Suite for Orchestra

Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Chamber Symphony
Chamber Symphony
Chamber Symphony
Chamber Symphony
Suite for Orchestra

1954
1955
-1956

The Fall of Berlin, suite from the film score, Op. 82a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
Festive Overture, for orchestra in A major, Op. 96

Suite for Orchestra

20th/21st Century Overture

The First Echelon, suite from the film score, Op. 99a

Suite for Orchestra

Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a
(assembled by Atovmyan)

Suite for Orchestra

1929

The Flea (The Bedbug), incidental music, Op. 19

20th/21st Century Incidental

Music for Orchestra

1929

The Flea (The Bedbug), suite from the incidental music, Op.
19a

Suite for Orchestra

1935

Fragments (5), for small orchestra, Op. 42

20th/21st Century Orchestral

Music

1931
1931
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1932
1933
-1934

The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by
Atovmyan)
The Golden Hills (The Golden Mountains; Happy Street), suite
from the film score, Op. 30a
Hamlet, incidental music, Op. 32 (unrelated to film score)
Hamlet, suite from the film score, Op.116a (assembled by
Atovmyan)
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to
film score)
The Human Comedy, incidental music, Op. 37 (part lost)

1956

Hypothetically Murdered, incidental music for circus sketch,

Op. 31 (11 of 35 numbers missing)
Katerina Izmaylova, suite from the opera, Op. 114a

1940

King Lear, incidental music, Op. 58a

1945

The Limpid Stream, suite from the ballet, Op. 39a

Maxim, suite (from film scores Opp.45 & 89), Op. 50a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
Michurin (Life in Bloom), suite from the film score, Op. 78a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
Mournful-Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Heroes of
Stalingrad, Op. 130

1961

1967
1942

Native Country, incidental music to spectacle, Op. 63

1928

Native Leningrad, suite (from incidental music to Native

Country), Op. 63
New Babylon, suite from the film score, Op. 18a (restored by
Rozhdestvensky)
The Nose, opera suite, Op. 15a

1960

Novorossisk Chimes (The Fire of Eternal Glory), for orchestra

1967

October, symphonic poem, Op. 131

1932

Overture for the Green Guild, for orchestra

Overture on Russian and Khirghiz Folksongs, for orchestra,
Op. 115

1942

1963
1929

Pieces (2) for E. Dressel's "Kolumbus", for orchestra, Op. 23

1947 - Pieces (3) for Orchestra

Suite for Orchestra

Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Occasional
Music
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Orchestral
Work with Descriptive Title
20th/21st Century Tone
Poem/Symphonic Poem
20th/21st Century Overture
20th/21st Century Overture
20th/21st Century Orchestral
Music
20th/21st Century Orchestral

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Music
Pirogov, suite from the film score, Op. 76a (assembled by
Atovmyan)

1931

Rule, Britannia!, incidental music, Op. 28

1944

Russian River, incidental music to spectacle, Op. 66

1936

Salute to Spain, incidental music, Op. 44

1923
-1924
1919
1929

20th/21st Century Incidental

Music for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra

Scherzo, for orchestra in E flat major, Op. 7

Scherzo for Orchestra

Scherzo, for orchestra in F sharp Minor, Op. 1

Scherzo for Orchestra

20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Chamber Symphony
Chamber Symphony
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Orchestral Music

The Shot, incidental music, Op. 24

1946
1960
1934
1938

String Quartet No 3, in F Major, Op. 73

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Suite for Jazz Orchestra, No. 1
Suite for Jazz Orchestra, No. 2
Symphonies (15), complete
Tahiti Trot, for orchestra (arr. of Youmans "Tea for Two"), Op.
1928
16
1933 - The Tale of the Priest and His Servant Balda, suite from the
34
animated film score, Op. 36a
1921
Theme & Variations, for orchestra in B flat major, Op. 3
-1922
Transcription for orchestra of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Ya
dolgo zhdal tebya"
Transcription for orchestra of Johann Strauss Jr.'s
1940
"Vergngungszug"
Transcription for orchestra of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Es war
einmal ein Knig ... "
The Unforgettable Year 1919, suite from the film score, Op. 89a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
1945

Suite for Orchestra

Victorious Spring, incidental music, Op. 72

A Year is Like a Lifetime, suite from the film score, Op. 120a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
The Young Guard, suite from the film score, Op. 75a
(assembled by Atovmyan)
Zoya (Who Is She?), suite from the film score, Op. 64a
(assembled by Atovmyan)

Fox Trot for Orchestra

Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Variations
Transcription for Orchestra
Transcription for Orchestra
Transcription for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
20th/21st Century Incidental
Music for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra
Suite for Orchestra

Concerto
1959
Cello Concerto No. 1, in E flat major, Op. 107
Cello Concerto
1966
Cello Concerto No. 2, in G major, Op. 126
Cello Concerto
1933
Piano Concerto No. 1, for piano, trumpet & strings, in C minor, Op. 35 Piano Concerto
1957
Piano Concerto No. 2, in F major, Op. 102
Piano Concerto
1947 - 48 Violin Concerto No. 1, in A minor, Op. 77 (revised as Op. 99)
Violin Concerto
1967
Violin Concerto No. 2, in C sharp minor, Op. 129
Violin Concerto