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==Latter years==

==Latter years==

Shostakovich settled in St. Petersburg, and spent less time composing serious music, instead turning to film scores.  Some of his most famous works include the score to the Russian film [[Jack Frost]], which features a series of traditional Russian fairy-tales, the score to the Finnish production [[The Day the Earth Froze]] (an adaptation of the [[Kalevala]]) strongly reminiscent of the earlier works of [[Sibelius]], and the animated Disney version of [[Peter and the Wolf]].  Eventually, he died, leaving a series of fugues known as [[The Way of the Fugue]] incomplete, as well as an incomplete re-scoring of the film [[Alexander Nevsky]].

Shostakovich settled in St. Petersburg, and spent less time composing serious music, instead turning to film scores.  Some of his most famous works include the score to the Russian film [[Jack Frost]], which features a series of traditional Russian fairy-tales, the score to the Finnish production [[The Day the Earth Froze]] (an adaptation of the [[Kalevala]]) strongly reminiscent of the earlier works of [[Sibelius]], and the animated Disney version of [[Peter and the Wolf]] (based on a story by [[Dostoevsky]].  However, he wrote some of his most serious pieces during this time, including several string quartets, a viola sonata, and several symphonies.  Eventually, he died, leaving a series of fugues known as [[The Way of the Fugue]] incomplete, as well as an incomplete re-scoring of the film [[Alexander Nevsky]].