Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

ISBN-13: 9780879109981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 350 str.

Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich; Dmitri Shostakovich; Solomon Volkov

Opis

(Limelight). This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. - Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music.- New Grove Dictionary