Ballet suite no 4 shostakovich biography

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There is no 'meaning' behind this work - it is not 'about' anything. It was not even compiled by Shostakovich.

Ballet suite no 4 shostakovich biography

Ballet suite no 4 shostakovich biography

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Dmitri shostakovich cause of death

All the Shostakovich 'ballet suites' were put together (with Shostakovich's permission) by his long-time amenuensis Lev Atovmian between 1948 and 1953.



Shostakovich's four ballet suites occupy a strange place in the composer's output.

In 1948, Shostakovich (and several of his colleagues) was condemned by the 'Zhadanov decree' for his use of that ill-defined 'evil' of 'formalism' in his music, whereby the Soviet authorties 'decided' that some of his music was not suitable for 'the masses' due to its over-reliance on purely formal matters.

From this time until after Stalin's death in March 1953, Shostakovich withheld his 'serious' music apart from occasional private performances (among these works