Dmitriy Shostakovich

Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich - Soviet pianist, public figure, teacher, doctor of art history, People's Artist of the USSR, one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century.

Dmitry Shostakovich was born in September 1906. The boy had two sisters. The eldest daughter Dmitry Boleslavovich and Sofya Vasilievna Shostakovich were named Maria, she was born in October 1903. Dmitry's younger sister received the name Zoya at birth. Shostakovich inherited his love for music from his parents. He and his sisters were very musical. Children together with their parents from a young age took part in improvised home concerts.

Dmitry Shostakovich studied at a commercial gymnasium since 1915, at the same time he began attending lessons at the famous private music school of Ignatiy Albertovich Glasser. While studying with the famous musician, Shostakovich acquired good skills as a pianist, but the mentor did not teach composition, and the young man had to do it on his own.

Dmitry recalled that Glasser was a boring, narcissistic and uninteresting person. Three years later, the young man decided to leave the course of study, although his mother in every possible way prevented this. Shostakovich, even at a young age, did not change his decisions and left the music school.

In his memoirs, the composer mentioned one event of 1917, which is strongly engraved in his memory. At the age of 11, Shostakovich saw how a Cossack, dispersing a crowd of people, cut a boy with a saber. At a young age, Dmitry, remembering this child, wrote a play called "Funeral March in memory of the victims of the revolution."

In 1919 Shostakovich became a student at the Petrograd Conservatory. The knowledge he acquired in the first year of the educational institution helped the young composer to finish his first major orchestral work - the Scherzo fis-moll.

In 1920, Dmitry Dmitrievich wrote Krylov's Two Fables and Three Fantastic Dances for piano. This period of the young composer's life is associated with the appearance of Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev and Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev in his entourage. The musicians were members of the Anna Vogt Circle.

Shostakovich studied diligently, although he experienced difficulties. It was a hungry and difficult time. The food ration for the students of the conservatory was very small, the young composer was starving, but did not leave music lessons. He attended the Philharmonic and classes despite hunger and cold. There was no heating in the conservatory in winter, many students fell ill, and there were cases of death.

In his memoirs, Shostakovich wrote that during this period physical weakness forced him to walk to classes. To get to the conservatory by tram, it was necessary to squeeze through the crowd of people who wanted to, since the transport was rare. Dmitry was too weak for this, he left the house in advance and walked for a long time.

The Shostakovichs were in dire need of money. The situation was aggravated by the death of the breadwinner of the family of Dmitry Boleslavovich. To earn some money, his son got a job as a pianist in the Svetlaya Ribbon cinema. Shostakovich recalled this time with disgust. The work was low-paid and exhausting, but Dmitry endured, because the family was in great need.

After a month of this musical penal servitude, Shostakovich went to the owner of the cinema, Akim Lvovich Volynsky, to receive a salary. The situation was very unpleasant. The owner of "Light Ribbon" shamed Dmitry for his desire to get earned pennies, convinced that people of art should not care about the material side of life.

Seventeen-year-old Shostakovich bargained for part of the sum, the rest could be obtained only through court. After a while, when Dmitry already had some fame in musical circles, he was invited to an evening in memory of Akim Lvovich. The composer came and shared his memories of the experience of working with Volynsky. The organizers of the evening were indignant.

In 1923 Dmitry Dmitrievich graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory in piano, and two years later - in composition. The musician's diploma work was Symphony No. 1. The work was first performed in 1926 in Leningrad. The foreign premiere of the symphony took place a year later in Berlin.

In the thirties of the last century, Shostakovich presented the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District to his fans. During this period he also completed work on five of his symphonies. In 1938, the musician composed the Jazz Suite. The most famous fragment of this work is "Waltz No. 2".

The appearance in the Soviet press of criticism regarding Shostakovich's music made him reconsider his view of some of his works. For this reason, the Fourth Symphony was not presented to the public. Shostakovich stopped rehearsals shortly before the premiere. The audience heard the Fourth Symphony only in the sixties of the twentieth century.

After the siege of Leningrad, Dmitry Dmitrievich considered the score of the piece lost and began to rework the sketches for the piano ensemble that he had preserved. In 1946, copies of the parts of the Fourth Symphony for all instruments were found in the archives of documents. After 15 years, the work was presented to the public.

The Great Patriotic War found Shostakovich in Leningrad. At this time, the composer began work on the Seventh Symphony. Leaving besieged Leningrad, Dmitry Dmitrievich took with him sketches of the future masterpiece. The Seventh Symphony made Shostakovich famous. It is most widely known as "Leningradskaya". The symphony was first performed in Kuibyshev in March 1942.

Shostakovich marked the end of the war with the composition of the Ninth Symphony. Its premiere took place in Leningrad on November 3, 1945. Three years later, the composer was among the musicians who fell into disgrace. His music was recognized as "alien to the Soviet people." Shostakovich was stripped of the title of professor, received in 1939.

Taking into account the tendencies of the time, Dmitry Dmitrievich in 1949 presented to the public the cantata "Song of the Forests". The main task of the work was to praise the Soviet Union and its triumphant restoration in the post-war years. The cantata earned the composer the Stalin Prize and good approval from critics and authorities.

In 1950, the musician, inspired by the works of Bach and the landscapes of Leipzig, began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano. The Tenth Symphony was written by Dmitry Dmitrievich in 1953, after an eight-year hiatus from working on symphonic works.

A year later, the composer created the Eleventh Symphony, called "1905". In the second half of the fifties, the composer delved into the genre of the instrumental concert. His music has become more varied in form and mood.

In the last years of his life Shostakovich wrote four more symphonies. He also composed several vocal pieces and string quartets. Shostakovich's last work was the Sonata for Viola and Piano.

People close to the composer recalled that his personal life began unsuccessfully. In 1923, Dmitry met a girl named Tatiana Glivenko. The young people had mutual feelings, but Shostakovich, burdened with need, did not dare to propose to his beloved. The girl, who was 18 years old, found herself another batch. Three years later, when Shostakovich's affairs improved a little, he invited Tatyana to leave her husband for him, but her beloved refused.

After some time Shostakovich got married. Nina Vazar became his chosen one. The wife gave Dmitry Dmitrievich twenty years of her life and gave birth to two children. In 1938 Shostakovich became a father for the first time. He had a son, Maxim. The youngest child in the family was daughter Galina. Shostakovich's first wife died in 1954.

The composer was married three times. His second marriage turned out to be fleeting, Margarita Kainova and Dmitry Shostakovich did not get along in character and quickly filed for divorce.

The composer got married for the third time in 1962. Irina Supinskaya became the wife of the musician. The third wife devotedly looked after Shostakovich during the years of his illness.

In the second half of the sixties, Dmitry Dmitrievich fell ill. His illness could not be diagnosed, and Soviet doctors just shrugged. The composer's wife recalled that her husband was prescribed vitamin courses to slow the development of the disease, but the disease progressed.

Shostakovich suffered from Charcot's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Attempts to cure the composer were made by American specialists and Soviet doctors. On Rostropovich's advice Shostakovich went to Kurgan to see Dr. Ilizarov. The treatment suggested by the doctor helped for a while. The disease continued to progress. Shostakovich fought his illness, did special exercises, and took medications by the hour. The consolation for him was his regular attendance at concerts. In the photo of those years, the composer is most often depicted with his wife.

In 1975, Dmitry Dmitrievich and his wife went to Leningrad. There was supposed to be a concert at which Shostakovich's romance was performed. The performer forgot the beginning, which made the author very excited. Upon returning home, the spouse called an ambulance for her husband. Shostakovich was diagnosed with a heart attack and the composer was taken to the hospital.

Dmitry Dmitrievich's life ended on August 9, 1975. On this day, he was going to watch football with his wife in a hospital ward. Dmitry sent Irina for the mail, and when she returned, her husband was already dead.

The composer was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

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