Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad

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Label

Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad

Title remainder

Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad

Statement of responsibility

M. T. Anderson ; [maps by Karen Minot]

Creator

• Anderson, M. T

Contributor

• Minot, Karen

Author

• Anderson, M. T

Illustrator

• Minot, Karen

Subject

• Composers
• Composers
• Composers -- Russia -- Biography
• History
• Music -- Psychological aspects
• Music -- Psychological aspects
• Music and war
• Russia
• Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
• Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944
• Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
• Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944)
• Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich)
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
• 1939-1945
• Biography

Genre

• History
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm. They ate family pets and -- eventually -- one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens -- the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power and layered meaning of music in beleaguered lives

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

780.92

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3930.S49

LC item number

A53 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography