leningrad symphony
1Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) — After the war, the symphony s reputation declined substantially, both due to its public perception as war propaganda as well as the increasingly prevalent view that it was one of Shostakovich’s less accomplished works. In more recent years,… …
2Symphony No. 1 (Popov) — Symphony No. 1 (Op. 7) by Soviet Russian composer Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov is a composition that was banned from performance in the U.S.S.R. until recently. Popov had completed a sketch of the first movement by August 1929 and was preparing its …
3Leningrad (disambiguation) — Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad ( ru. Ленинград) may also refer to: * Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia * Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad , of the Soviet Navy * Leningrad (band), a Russian… …
4Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) — Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936. Halfway through its composition, he was denounced in the infamous Pravda editorial Chaos Instead of Music, written under direct orders from… …
5Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich) — The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Evgeny Mravinsky. tructure Symphony No. 6 is in three movements… …
6Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) — Infobox Symphony symphonynumber=5 name=A Soviet Artist s Response to Justified Criticism opusnumber=47 composer=Dmitri Shostakovich yearcomposed=1937 playingtime=49:40 movements=4 key=D minor Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D… …
7Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) — Infobox Symphony symphonynumber=9 opusnumber=70 composer=Dmitri Shostakovich yearcomposed=1945 playingtime=25:52 movements=5 key=E flat major Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1945. It was premiered on… …
8Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich) — The Symphony No. 14 (Opus 135) by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969, and was premiered later that year. It is a sombre work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings …
9Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) — The Symphony No. 5 in E minor (Op. 64) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg on November 6 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting. A typical performance of his Symphony No …
10Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich) — The Symphony No. 1 in F minor (Opus 10) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Saint Petersburg by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926. He wrote the work as his graduation piece… …
