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Music for Silenced Voices

Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

Music for Silenced Voices( )
Author: Lesser, Wendy
ISBN:978-0-300-16933-1
Publication Date:Mar 2012
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. Music for Silenced Voices looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a "diary, the story of his soul." The...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical
Music / Printed Music / Strings
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 1.19 Inches
Book Weight:1.2 Pounds



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