Title: Leningrad
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.
Subjects: Symphony, Music, Music and state, Social conditions, Music and war, History and criticism, History, Symphonies, Political aspects, Social history, Sankt Petersburg, Belagerung, Sinfonie, Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921, Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich), New York Times reviewed
Places: Saint Petersburg (Russia), Soviet Union
People: Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Time periods: Siege, 1941-1944, 20th century