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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Random House
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Language: en
Pages: 374
Pages: 374
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What were Dmitri Shostakovich's views about his homeland? Until 1979 the Soviet Union's official composer was considered a staunch supporter of Joseph Stalin an
Language: en
Pages: 307
Pages: 307
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Knopf
“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose
Language: en
Pages: 575
Pages: 575
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-04 - Publisher: HarperCollins
The acclaimed classical composer chronicles his life and work in twentieth-century Soviet Russia with the help of a distinguished musicologist. Since the time o
Language: en
Pages: 0
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-14 - Publisher: National Geographic Books
A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder.