1 of 1933, but things turned sour again in early 1936, when Stalin decided to see the Shostakovich opera everyone was talking about, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. But within a few years of this debut, his satirical opera The Nose (staged in 1930) ran afoul of Soviet politicos, and the powerful Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians denounced its “bourgeois decadence.” He redeemed himself with his charming, often brash Piano Concerto No. 1 launched him on a promising career upon his graduation, in 1926, from the conservatory in his native Saint Petersburg, and he started turning heads as a pianist, too. THE BACKSTORY Dmitri Shostakovich spent most of his career falling in and out of favor with the Communist authorities. INSTRUMENTATION: 2 flutes and piccolo (2nd flute also doubling piccolo), 2 oboes and English horn (doubling 3rd oboe), 2 clarinets and E-flat clarinet (doubling 3rd clarinet), 2 bassoons and contrabassoon (doubling 3rd bassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, tambourine, snare drum, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, xylophone, and strings ![]() Dimitri Mitropoulos led the New York Philharmonic‑Symphony Yevgeny Mravinsky conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic, in Leningrad ![]() ![]() Saint Petersburg, RussiaĬOMPOSED: Begun in the summer, and completed in the fall of 1953
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