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Sonata, for violin and piano, op. 134 Sonata, for violin and piano, op. 134 Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich Shostakovich's Violin Sonata is one of the very finest productions of his late career, a chamber work of unbending grandeur and seriousness and on a huge and muscular scale. Written in the autumn of … OL11122086W
Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 40 Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 40 Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich On the way to premiere his Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40, (1934), Shostakovich reportedly first read Stalin's statement in Pravda attacking his music as "bourgeois." Indeed, the period that was … OL19680568W