Leningrad
Subtitle: siege and symphony
By: Brian Moynahan
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780802123169
Subjects: Symphony; Music; Music and state; Social conditions; Music and war; History and criticism; History
Description: Places the composition of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and its 1942 performance during the siege of Leningrad in the context of the city's intellectual and social life and its sufferings from Stalinist terror as much as from the Nazi invasion.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Quercus Editions Ltd."-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-520) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ouvertyura = Overture; title: Repressii = Terror; title: Voyna = War; title: Do serediny sentyabr' = To mid-September 1941; title: Do serediny oktyabr' = To mid-October 1941; title: Oktyabr' = October 1941; title: Noyabr' = November 1941; title: Dekabr' = December 1941; title: Noviy god = New Year; title: Yanvar' = January 1942; title: Fevral' = February 1942; title: Mart = March 1942; title: Aprel'-Maj = April-May 1942; title: Iyun' = June 1942; title: Iyul' = July 1942; title: Simfonya Nr. 7 = Symphony no. 7; title: Do svidaniya = Farewell.