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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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His henchmen called Marina Mniszech's son " Ivan Dmitriyevich " ( literally Ivan, son of Dmitri ), however, Patriarch Hermogenes would later dub him a " little thief ".
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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.
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.
This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 ( opus 86 ), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.
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.
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Prince Dmitri Vladimirovich Golitsyn ( 1771 – 1844 ) fought bravely during the Napoleonic wars, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and governed Moscow for 25 years.
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* September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance at Kulikovo.
* September 14, 1911 – Dmitri Bogrov shoots Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II and two of his daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana.
Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material.
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia ( Дмитрий Павлович Романов ) ( 18 September 1891 – 5 March 1941 ) was a Russian imperial dynast.
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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 ).
97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged from the composition by Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ) for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich ( 1864 – 1960 ).
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The discovery of the chemical elements has a long history from the days of alchemy and culminating in the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements by Dmitri Mendeleev ( 1834 – 1907 ) and later discoveries of some synthetic elements.
The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich ( 1823 – 89 ), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science.
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