Subtitled “The Year 1905,” this work premiered in October 1957 with Natan Rakhlin conducting. It was an enormous popular success and received the Lenin Prize in April 1958. Inspired by the failed Russian revolution of 1905 (and, by many accounts, the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising of 1956), it is di...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 was written by Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich).
Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich) released Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 on Wed Oct 30 1957.
Shostakovich told his friend Solomon Volkov:
The people would basically be destined to suffer at the hands of indifferent autocrats; they would periodically protest in the name of humanity, only to be betrayed or punished. I wanted to show this recurrence in the Eleventh Symphony… It’s about the pe...