Two years to the day after the premiere of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, his Sixth was premiered in the same concert hall in Leningrad by the same conductor, Yevgeny Mravinsky. The work is divided into three movements:
Largo
Allegro
Presto
Shostakovich initially intended to set one of the movem...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 was written by Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich).
Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich) released Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 on Tue Nov 21 1939.
In an interview with the Soviet press, Shostakovich said,
The musical character of the Sixth Symphony will differ from the mood and emotional tone of the Fifth Symphony, in which moments of tragedy and tension were characteristic. In my latest symphony, music of a contemplative and lyrical order pr...
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