SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975)
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘D Shostakovich’), from the Symphony No. 8, Op. 65, 23 May 1945.
One page, 152 x 256mm, on a folded piece of card, seven bars of music on a single stave from the opening of the third movement, headed in autograph ‘Schveizeriche [sic] Musikzeitung’ (the card cut from a larger bifolium, a little creased at top left edge). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 8 December 2000, lot 214.
As WWII draws to an end, Shostakovich pens a quotation from his Symphony No. 8, subtitled the ‘Stalingrad Symphony’ by the USSR in honour of those countrymen killed in one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles. By 1945, Shostakovich had resumed his conservatory teaching career in Moscow following the disruption of the war. The heading of the quotation presumably refers to the music journal the Schweizerische Musikzeitung, founded in 1861.
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SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘D Shostakovich’), from the Symphony No. 8, Op. 65, 23 May 1945.
One page, 152 x 256mm, on a folded piece of card, seven bars of music on a single stave from the opening of the third movement, headed in autograph ‘Schveizeriche [sic] Musikzeitung’ (the card cut from a larger bifolium, a little creased at top left edge). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 8 December 2000, lot 214.
As WWII draws to an end, Shostakovich pens a quotation from his Symphony No. 8, subtitled the ‘Stalingrad Symphony’ by the USSR in honour of those countrymen killed in one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles. By 1945, Shostakovich had resumed his conservatory teaching career in Moscow following the disruption of the war. The heading of the quotation presumably refers to the music journal the Schweizerische Musikzeitung, founded in 1861.
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