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::Wasn't the 2nd piano trio also about a friend's death?
::Wasn't the 2nd piano trio also about a friend's death?
::You mean to say you ''don't'' weep during the slow movement of the 5th. You have no soul.:) For years a home-recorded cassette containing the 5th and 10th in my Walkman was my guard against travel sickness on my frequent 2 hour commutes between Hobart and Sydney. They were proof that there were people feeling more rotten than I did. That long first movement of the 6th gets to me too. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:12, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
::You mean to say you ''don't'' weep during the slow movement of the 5th. You have no soul.:) For years a home-recorded cassette containing the 5th and 10th in my Walkman was my guard against travel sickness on my frequent 2 hour commutes between Hobart and Sydney. They were proof that there were people feeling more rotten than I did. That long first movement of the 6th gets to me too. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:12, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Ahh yes, of course. I always forget the ones dearest to me. :) The second trio was dedicated to the memory of Ivan Sollertinsky, Shostakovich's closest friend, who also introduced him to Mahler. To be completely even-handed, some sources say that it was finished a month before Sollertinsky's death, and other equally credible ones say that Shostakovich got the news a few days after finishing the first movement.
:::Of course I weep during the slow movement, when no one's watching! What's interesting about this story was that so many people were weeping loudly during the performance that it turned into a scene. It's hard to imagine that happening in a concert hall these days. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 18:22, 28 March 2009 (EDT)