Though Shostakovich predicted that critics would hate this lighter work of his, the reaction was largely favorable after the symphony premiered in Leningrad in November 1945, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting. The symphony is divided into five movements:
Allegro
Moderato
Presto
Largo
Allegretto – A...
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Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70 was written by Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich).
Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich) released Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70 on Sat Nov 03 1945.
Warning listeners that they were in for a different experience, the composer wrote:
In character, the Ninth Symphony differs sharply from my preceding symphonies, the Seventh and the Eighth. If the Seventh and the Eighth symphonies bore a tragic-heroic character, then in the Ninth a transparent, pe...