Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist by Sofia Moshevich
By Sofia Moshevich
Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is famous as one of many maximum composers of the 20 th century, but few humans recognize that he was once additionally a superb live performance pianist who maintained a busy appearing agenda. In "Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist", Sofia Moshevich deals the 1st targeted exam of Shoshtakovich the pianist in the context of his lifestyles and paintings as a composer. She lines his musical roots, piano reviews, repertoire, and live performance profession via his correspondence with friends and family, and his personal and his contemporaries' memoirs, utilizing fabric by no means prior to to be had in English. This biographical narrative is interwoven with analyses of Shoshtakovich's piano and chamber works, demonstrating how he interpreted his personal song. For the 1st time, Shoshtakovich's personal recordings are used as fundamental resources to find what made his enjoying targeted, and to dispel ordinarily held myths approximately his type of interpretation. His recorded performances are analysed intimately, particularly his tempos, phraseology, dynamics, pedal, and tonal creation. a few unpublished versions of musical texts are integrated, and examples of his interpretations are supplied and in comparison to a number of versions of his released ratings.
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Nikolai Sokolov, another marvelous musician and pedagogue, became his counterpoint teacher. Dmitri also attended Alexander Ossovsky’s lectures on music history, which he found highly interesting. In 1924, he studied conducting with Nicolai Malko, violin with Victor Valter, and chamber music with Alexander Glazunov. Shostakovich proved to be an extremely conscientious student who blossomed in his new environment in spite of the harsh conditions of everyday life in post-revolutionary Petrograd. The entire city had been devastated, the Conservatory building had no heating, and meagre food rations provided little relief for people’s constant hunger.
13 Prelude in E minor: bars 1–3. tenacious – containing within itself a clearly defined rhythmic momentum and, at the same time, possessing a great variety of expressive shadings. 45 In his memoirs, Nicolai Malko confirms Bogdanov-Berezovsky’s description in his own way: “I shall not call his playing artistic. It lacked a certain expressiveness and was devoid of certain artistic impulses inherent in the performance of a great artist. It was as if, in his playing of the score, he was presenting the music itself rather than a performance of it.
This cultured, polite, and soft-spoken woman presented a striking contrast to the dogmatically severe Glyasser, who, when necessary, never hesitated to express his anger openly. Patient and kind, Rozanova tirelessly polished her students’ pieces, paying a great deal of attention to dynamics and the various minute details of interpretation. In all likelihood, she inspired Shostakovich to strive for greater refinement and sensitivity in his playing. She also demonstrated a keen interest in Dmitri’s compositions, thus creating an immediate and warm rapport with her new student.