Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

Name: Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of the composer's working circumstances and of his response to them. > Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as responses - by turn.