Dmitri Shostakovich

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Last update: July 6, 2000


These pages portray the life of the composer Dimitri Shostakovich who lived from 1906 until 1975.

Works by Shostakovich

Here you can find a complete list of all compositions by Shostakovich.

Poll

Which symphony is your favorite Shostakovich-symphony.

Pictures

Photographs of Shostakovich can be found in my Shostakovich Picture Section


General information

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Works by other Soviet Composers

Information on many Soviet composers is available too.

Please check the works of NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN.
His compositional style is a blend of West European classical and post classical art music with the modern idioms of jazz and rock.
In some weeks two new CDs will be released by Boheme Music International:
DICC 24058: Eight Concert Etudes (1984) / Sonata-Fantasy (1984)
DICC 24059: Twenty-Four Preludes (1988)
Both performed by the composer himself.

Amongst his compositions are three concertos for piano & orchestra (1961, 1974, 1985), a two-movement concerto for orchestra (1980), a concertino for piano & orchestra (1957) and a concert rhapsody for piano & orchestra (1976).
If you know where to find recordings of one or more of these concertos then please let me know as soon as possible!