A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1942

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975 ) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music.

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Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Both Dmitri Shostakovich ( Hamlet, 1964 ) and Alfred Schnittke ( Symphony No. 8, 1998 ) wrote works that use the harpsichord as part of the orchestral texture.

His wife ( Lady Macbeth ) has gained fame along the way, lending her Shakespeare-given title to a short story by Nikolai Leskov and the opera by Dmitri Shostakovich titled Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

Composers thus influenced include the Englishman Benjamin Britten, the German Hans Werner Henze, and the Russian Dmitri Shostakovich.

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This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 ( opus 86 ), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.

* September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer ( d. 1975 )

During his stay in the USSR, he visited Moscow and met several leading Soviet composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian.

Several composers, chief among them Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich, have created new editions of the opera to " correct " perceived technical weaknesses in the composer's original scores.

Other composers who wrote music in the style of the polka were Jaromír Weinberger, Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky.

Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan — originally op.

In an article in the December 2004 edition of the magazine Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record Peter de Malama wrote that his cousin, Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama, an officer in the Imperial Russian Cavalry, met Tatiana when he was wounded in 1914 and a romance later developed between Tatiana and the young man when he was appointed an equerry to the court of the Tsar at Tsarskoye Selo.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Modest Mussorgsky wrote Sunless ( 1874 ), The Nursery and Songs and Dances of Death, and Dmitri Shostakovich wrote cycles on English and Yiddish poets, as well as Michelangelo and Pushkin.

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op.

Andrei Sakharov wrote that Lev Ponomaryov, Yuri Samodurov, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Dmitri Leonov, Arseny Roginsky and others put forth an initiative to create a memorial complex to victims of Joseph Stalin's repression in the late 1980s.

" I am enjoying raising Dmitri ," Sergei wrote in his diary.

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote music devoted to Cherny's poetry.

* Dmitri Vasilyev of Astrakhan State University recently hypothesized that the Khazars moved in to the Pontic steppe region only in the late 6th century, and originally lived in Transoxiana.

At this stage, it wasn't clear what atoms were-although they could be described and classified by their observable properties in bulk ; summarized by the developing periodic table, by John Newlands and Dmitri Mendeleyev around the mid to late 19th century.

He has been the inspiration for many Russian composers, including most notably Dmitri Shostakovich ( in his late symphonies ) and Sergei Prokofiev ( in his operas ).

The late 19th and early 20th century saw the third wave of Russian classics: Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 – 1971 ), Alexander Scriabin ( 1872 – 1915 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( 1891 – 1953 ) and Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

Rumours circulated that the late tsar's younger brother Dmitri, thought to be dead, was still alive and in hiding.

Dmitri arrives late and the gathering soon degenerates and only exacerbates the feud between Dmitri and Fyodor.

Recently, however, Dmitri Panchenko has argued persuasively, on the basis of apparent references to Scylax's work in the late Greek author Philostratos, that Scylax in fact travelled across N. India, made his way down the Ganges, and arrived at Taprobane ( Sri Lanka ).

In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work, in what BBC2 late night news programme Newsnight later said was " likely to be the literary event of 2009.

In the late 1990s Dmitri Nabokov read a portion of the book to a group of about 20 scholars at a centenary celebration of his father at Cornell University.

The publisher's note to the first edition explains the reason for the two editions: a detailed " Introductory Note " by Dmitri Nabokov, the author's son, had arrived too late for inclusion in the first.

In late 2006 / early 2007 founding member Howard Jay Patterson (" Ivan Karamazov ") announced his retirement from the troupe after 30 + years, which would leave Paul " Dmitri " Magid as the sole remaining original member.