The Funeral March in Memory of Victims of the Revolution features a dotted quaver and semiquaver upbeat, a rhythmic cell that became symbolically significant and was used throughout Shostakovich's life.
Composition History
Shostakovich's early piano pieces, written before he entered the Petrograd Conservatory at age thirteen, show the influence of Chopin, one of his favorite composers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mahler's music significantly influenced Shostakovich from the 1930s onward, with clear references to Mahler's symphonies appearing in Shostakovich's own works.
Composition History
The Funeral March in Memory of Victims of the Revolution was inspired by Shostakovich's experience at a funeral procession in Petrograd after the 1917 revolution.
Album & Artwork
This album features five decades of Shostakovich's music, including juvenilia, an unfinished violin sonata fragment, and arrangements of his own and other composers' works.
Composer Biography
Shostakovich was a prolific composer who rarely revised his works, preferring to "correct it in my next composition" if he was dissatisfied.
Composition History
Shostakovich's arrangement of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for piano four hands was likely for personal study and to introduce the work to members of the Mahler Society.
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