Title: The Nose (opera)
Content:  The Nose, Op. 15, (Нос ), is Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836 story of the same name.
Title: The Nose (opera)
Content:  The opera was written between 1927 and 1928. The libretto is by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis. Shostakovich stated it was a satire on the times of Alexander I. The plot concerns a Saint Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Gogol's original work was expanded by borrowing from some of his other works, including "The Overcoat", Marriage, "Diary of a Madman", and Dead Souls as well as The Brothers Karamazov (1881) by Dostoyevsky. The latter occurs in act 2, scene 6, where Kovalyov returns home to find Ivan singing. The song is Shostakovich's setting of the words of part 2, book 5, chapter 2 of Karamazov, where the lackey, Smerdiakov, sings to his neighbour Mariia Kondratevna. "An invisible force ties to my beloved. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me! I'll 
Title: The Nose (opera)
Content:  In June 1929, The Nose was given a concert performance, against Shostakovich's own wishes: "The Nose loses all meaning if it is seen just as a musical composition. For the music springs only from the action...It is clear to me that a concert performance of The Nose will destroy it." Indeed, the concert performance caused bewilderment, and was ferociously attacked by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM). The original plan was to mount a stage production at the Bolshoi Theatre under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold, but plans fell through because Meyerhold was too busy with other productions. The stage premiere, conducted by Samuil Samosud, took place at the Maly Operny Theatre in Leningrad on 18 January 1930. It opened to generally poor reviews and widespread incomprehension amongst musicians. Even 
Title: The Nose (Gogol short story)
Content:  Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation. Another animated short film, made in 1966, directed by Mordicai Gerstein and narrated by Brother Theodore, shifted the story to Pittsburgh and changed the names (the barber is named "Theodore Schneider" and the nose-loser is named "Nathan Nasspigel"). Rolan Bykov directed a TV film adapted from the story in 1977. Andrei Amalrik's play "Nose! Nose? No-se!", like Gogol's short story, features a Major Kovalyov who wanders around St. Petersburg in search of his nose. The Kovalyov in 
Title: The Nose (opera)
Content:  the conductor Nikolai Malko, who had taught Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory and conducted the premiere of his pupil's First Symphony, reckoned the opera a "tremendous success"; indeed it was given 16 performances with two alternating casts over six months. The opera was not performed again in the Soviet Union until 1974, when it was revived by Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Boris Pokrovsky. Interviewed for a 2008 documentary, Rozhdestvensky related that he had found an old copy of The Nose in the Bolshoi Theatre in 1974, supposedly the last copy in the Soviet Union. The composer attended the rehearsal and premiere in 1974. The opera received its United States professional premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 1965, conducted by Erich Kunzel and was performed again by the Santa Fe company in 
Title: The Nose (opera)
Content:  up a king's crown, if my beloved is happy. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me!" Shostakovich uses a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality. The apparent chaos is given structure by formal musical devices such as canons and quartets, a device taken from Alban Berg's Wozzeck. According to the British composer Gerard McBurney writing for Boosey & Hawkes, "The Nose is one of the young Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces, an electrifying tour de force of vocal acrobatics, wild instrumental colours and theatrical absurdity, all shot through with a blistering mixture of laughter and rage... The result, in Shostakovich's ruthlessly irreverent hands, is like an operatic version of Charlie Chaplin or Monty Python... despite its magnificently absurd subject and virtuosic music, The Nose is a perfectly practical work and provides a hugely entertaining evening in the theatre."
Title: The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks
Content:  As news of a possible Andrey Khrzhanovsky adaptation of The Nose reached the public media in 1969, composer Dmitry Shostakovich personally sent a postcard to the director stating authorization to use the opera The Nose as the soundtrack for the film. Compiled in 1920s, the opera was put on the shelves after censure from the Stalin authorities. However, in the year 1969, the opera at the Bolshoi theater as well as the literary novel by Gogol received critical acclaim again. The soundtrack of the film is rendered under the operatic sopranos of Dmitry Shostakovich. A review found the musical aspect of the film became so convincing that it could be seen as a separate part of the film.
Title: The Nose (opera)
Content: Бретаницкая, Алла Леонидовна: «Нос» Д. Д. Шостаковича. Путеводитель. (The "Nose" by D. D. Shostakovich. A guidebook.) Москва, 1983. «Музыка» 
Title: The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks
Content:  1974 play rendered by the composer Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Thereafter the director developed the concept of a film that at first became a tribute to Vsevolod Meyerhold through the script The Transformation Machine that became more formalized after the release of the 2008 film A Room and a Half. Composer Shostakovich used to write music for Meyerhold in the early 1900s whose Soviet Union plays violated the regulations of Stalin's government. The script writing team in collaboration by Yuri Arabov continued to recognize the pattern of the repression of the arts that were also found in the symbolism of the play The Nose. At a session in Kinotavr, critics noted the developing script needed more refinements with 
Title: The Nose (film)
Content:  The Nose (Нос) is a 1977 Soviet TV drama film, directed by Rolan Bykov based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol.

Question: Who was the composer of The Nose?
Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
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