David Brown
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Emeritus Professor of Musicology, University of Southampton, England. Author of Mikhail Glinka; Tchaikovsky; and others.
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Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer, renowned particularly for his 15 symphonies, numerous chamber works, and concerti, many of them written under the pressures of government-imposed standards of Soviet art. Shostakovich was the son of an engineer. He entered the Petrograd (now St.β¦
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