Leningrad

By Brian Moynahan

Subjects: Sinfonie, Social history, Music and war, Belagerung, Symphonies, Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921, Symphony, Music and state, Music, New York Times reviewed, Sankt Petersburg, History and criticism, Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich), Social conditions, History, Political aspects

Description: Places the composition of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and its 1942 performance during the siege of Leningrad in the context of the city's intellectual and social life and its sufferings from Stalinist terror as much as from the Nazi invasion.