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Dmitrij Dmitrijevič Šostakovič bol ruský hudobný skladateľ. Považuje sa za najvýznamnejšieho sovietskeho skladateľa svojej generácie a jedného z najväčších symfonikov 20. storočia.[chýba zdroj] V odborných kruhoch patrí medzi najdiskutovanejšie osobnosti hudobných dejín a je predmetom rozsiahleho výskumu a početných publikácií. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. september 1906 – 9. august 1975   •   Ďalšie mená Дмитрий Шостакович, Шостакович Дмитрий Дмитриевич
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“Art destroys silence.”

Dmitri Shostakovich kniha Testimony

Testimony: The Memoirs

“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”

Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.

“The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.”

In conversation with Isaac Glikman, July 4, 1966; Josiah Fisk & Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (1997) p. 355.

“I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.”

In discussion with an opera audience, January 14, 1930; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 55.

“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

Dmitri Shostakovich kniha Testimony

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Of his Eleventh Symphony.
Testimony (1979)

“Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.”

"The Power of Music" (1964), translated in Music Journal, September 1965, p. 37.