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book "Shostakovich: A Life", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513438-9. --An3206 02:12, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
book "Shostakovich: A Life", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513438-9. --An3206 02:12, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
The article is indeed an attempted hoax. As I said in my previous discussion contribution, which I note has been deleted, Shostakovich did NOT write a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 2 No 3 (sic) - the author must have known that it was Rachmaninov that wrote a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 3 No 2 (sic). It's clearly deliberate misinformation. However, if you examine a number of articles about composers (Beethoven comes to mind), you will find similar silly distortions in all of them that were contributed by the same author. (Incidentally it's the Love OF Three Oranges, not the Love FOR three oranges - a similar pattern of even giving the wrong name e.g. "Rituals of Spring"). Someone should check all the articles contributed by the same author as this one, and take them all down. If kids are going to use this as a resource, the it is criminal to feed them with deliberate mis-information like this. [[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 17:21, 22 March 2007 (EDT)
The article is indeed an attempted hoax. As I said in my previous discussion contribution, which I note has been deleted, Shostakovich did NOT write a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 2 No 3 (sic) - the author must have known that it was Rachmaninov that wrote a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 3 No 2 (sic). It's clearly deliberate misinformation. If kids are going to use this as a resource, the it is criminal to feed them with deliberate mis-information like this. [[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 17:21, 22 March 2007 (EDT)
I have made a fairly major edit to the article at least to remove some of the falsehoods and trying to replace them with some reasonably accurate information. It is a long way from being up to the standard of an encyclopedia article, I'm aware - it wants citations, and could do with a lot more detail. But hopefully it's a start. I'm afraid the entire sections on emigration (he didn't) and the Tchaikovsky competition have had to be removed - I couldn't think of anything real to replace them with. Shostakovich visited America ''after'' the war, not before it. [[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 17:59, 22 March 2007 (EDT)