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.

Appleton was first introduced to Russian musicians and artists by the choral conductor / ethnologist Dmitri Pokrovsky ( 1944 – 1996 ) and this began his compositional return to instrumental and choral music, much of it composed for the pianist Julia Turkina and cellist Alexander Zagorinsky.

Dmitri Shostakovich quoted " La Marseillaise " at some length during the fifth reel of the film score he composed for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon ( set during the Paris Commune ), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous " Can-can " from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

In the first half of the twentieth-century, the piano quintet attracted composers with strong roots in Romanticism, including Gabriel Fauré, Edward Elgar and Dmitri Shostakovich, all of whom composed noteworthy works in the genre.

Many composers famous for their string quartets – such as Joseph Haydn ( pioneer of the quartet genre ), Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith, and Dmitri Shostakovich – never composed a string quintet.

Shuisky seized power and was elected tsar by an assembly composed of his faction, but the change did not satisfy the Russian boyars, Commonwealth magnates, Cossacks, or the German mercenaries, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dmitri, son and heir of Ivan the Terrible, came forward as the rightful heir.

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material.

47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937.

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op.

70 was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1945.

The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich.

The Nose (, ' Nos ') is a satirical opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich.

After the Second World War, Ohzawa taught at the Kobe Jagakuin ; composed light music, jazzy concertos for saxophone and trumpet ; created an orchestra ; and hosted his own radio show featuring the orchestra, which featured popular classics, as well as more modern works by such composers as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich.

* Dmitri Shostakovich: Song of the Forests-The Fall of Berlin for chorus

* Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op.

* Dmitri Shostakovich-Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op.

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor ( Op.

Dmitri Shostakovich ’ s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op.

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

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (, Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo Uyezda ) is an opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op. 29.

* Dmitri Smirnov, Sonata, Op.

*: Dmitri Shostakovich-Sonata, Op.

*: Dmitri Shostakovich-Piano Trio, Op.

* Dmitri Shostakovich, 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.

* Dmitri Kabalevsky, 6 Preludes and Fugues for piano, Op.

120, No. 1 ; Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano Op.