Yevgeny Mravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled "The Year of 1917", in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, as he did his Symphony No. 2. The symphony was premiered on October 1, 1961, by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky.