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→Was Shostakovich a secret dissident?
:::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.
:::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)
:::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)
G'morning. Dissidence in a completely different form, but still through his music - the brilliant cocking a snook at the establishment when he wrote that outwardly jaunty Ninth, when a "grand statement" of triumphant patriotic pride was expected of him. I know there's the usual under-current, but it seems so slight a work for so big an occasion. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 19:08, 28 March 2009 (EDT)