Shostakovich in context
By: edited by Rosamund Bartlett.
Contributors: Bartlett, Rosamund.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This interdisciplinary volume seeks to present Shostakovich and his music in many different contexts, in order to establish a more rounded picture of the composer's legacy. The authors of the articles collected here are leading scholars in Russian music and literature who have drawn on unpublished correspondence, archival sources, and the latest research to present important new information about each decade of Shostakovich's career."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers, given principally at a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994, entitled Shostakovich, the man and his age; four papers translated from Russian were given at a Shostakovich conference held in St. Petersburg, 1994.