Composed in summer 1943, the Symphony No. 8 was first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated. The symphony, which ...
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It was widely criticized in the Soviet Union for its “unrelieved gloom,” and ...
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