Shostakovich

2nd movement to string quartet no 8 shostakovich

2nd movement to string quartet no 8 shostakovich
  1. What is Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 about?
  2. Why did Shostakovich write Quartet 8?
  3. When did Shostakovich write his string quartets?

What is Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 about?

According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and the war"; his son Maxim interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by the Russian authorities.

Why did Shostakovich write Quartet 8?

The important point is that Shostakovich intended his String Quartet No. 8 to be a virtual retrospective of his musical life, knitted together with the first-person pronoun that is his musical signature D-S-C-H (D-Eb-C-B), and composed at a time of suicidal despair.

When did Shostakovich write his string quartets?

Shostakovich did not begin writing quartets until 1935, by which time he was already a scarred veteran of run-ins with Soviet artistic authority. So he turned inward, as composers wrestling with the sometimes dubious rewards of high visibility frequently do--to the string quartet.

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