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Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad /

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. S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, M. T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975 > Juvenile literature.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975. > Symphonies, > no. 7, op. 60, > C major > Juvenile literature.
Composers > Russia > Biography > Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Russia > Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war > Juvenile literature.
Music > Psychological aspects > Juvenile literature.
Morale > Juvenile literature.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) > History > Siege, 1941-1944 > Juvenile literature.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) > History > Siege, 1941-1944.
Composers.
World War, 1939-1945 > Russia.
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Juvenile works.
Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944)
World War (1939-1945)
Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich)
1939-1945
Morale.
Music and war.
Music > Psychological aspects.
Russia.
Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg.
Table of Contents:
  • The death of yesterday
  • The birth of tomorrow
  • Life is getting merrier
  • Friendship
  • Barbarossa
  • The approach
  • The first movement
  • The second movement
  • The third movement
  • Fables, stories
  • Flight
  • Railway car no. 7
  • Kuibyshev and Leningrad
  • An optimistic Shostakovich
  • The city of the dead
  • My music is my weapon
  • The road of life
  • Symphony for the city of the dead
  • Cold war and thaw.