His early works are peppered with scherzos such as the last of his Three Fantastic Dances.
His early works are peppered with scherzos such as the last of his Three Fantastic Dances. The polka from his ballet The Golden Age proved popular, as did the "Bureaucrat's Polka" from his ballet The Bolt. While he composed scores for films like "Five Days – Five Nights" and "A Year is Like a Lifetime," he was often coerced into writing patriotic works like Poem of the Motherland and The Sun Shines on Our Motherland. For 10 points, name this composer of the Babi Yar symphony and the ballet Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, whose "Oath to the People's Commissar" shows the heroism of his countrymen in the face of Nazi invasion within his Leningrad symphony.
His early works are peppered with scherzos such as the last of his Three Fantastic Dances.
Dmitri {Shostakovich}