Nothing like a good cigarette after completing one of the greatest, heart-wrenching symphonies of all time that saved a city from endless despair. 👏 👏 👏 💖🇷🇺💥
Not being Russian, we westerners can only try to imagine just how hard life must have been for Russians during this period. I note that even as he sits back and enjoys his smoke, his brain is still working .. as seen through his fingers. Wish i could see more real footage of that period. Does anyone have footage of camps in Siberia?
It is a mistake not to attribute Russians to Europe and Europeans. In the 20th century there was an attempt to drive Russia into Asia. I hope this attempt failed.
Ikr. Must be stressful. Shostakovich actually tries to attempt suicide once due to depression over this whole Revolution thingy but he wrote his 8th string quartet to promise himself not to do it instead. I can't believe i'm worried over a death person's mental health.
There were no camps in Siberia, they were near massive and important build sites, like Belomor and Volg-Don river channels or near cities ruined in the War.
Dimitri Shostakovich was definitely a fantastic composer. His 9th symphony is one of my favorite pieces of music that I've learned about. He actually passed away the year my dad was born (1975).
One of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He works are ingenious; it's a shame he had to live in a time and in a country that was going through tremendous political upheaval. It dramatically affected his life and his work. He doesn't get enough credit,
Even though it did limit his artistic freedom greatly, the events that he lived through also influenced his music in a positive way I would say. Limitations force artists to get creative in order to express themselves.
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@@itamarbar9580 Stalin was a great fan of Shostakovich, maybe the greatest, lol. Shostakovich had a very good apartments, try to search for his house in St. Peterburg.
@@arseniynikitin7673 Indeed, Stalin was his fan, that's why Shostakovitch was bullied, his works weren't performed for a very long stretch of time, and he was one of the primary subjects of that awful soviet "revold against formalism", suffering along with Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Khachaturyan, and Muradeli, whose opera "Great Friendship" was named as an exemplar case of a "wrong antisoviet music". That's how Shostakovitch was broken, actually. This symphony, Leningrad, was dedicated to the city because of a war, but it was initially composed to be anti-soviet. It's how the music feels: the man against the crushing government machine, listen carefully. But in the symphony, the man wins. Still think Shostakovitch was glad to live in Soviet Union? Think again. Know his biography before saying ridiculous things.
Only in Russia. Fascist enemy at the gates and they've still got time for culture, music, books n museums. Can't be beaten. History is on the side of Mother Russia. Glory to all the Russian people, multi ethnic. Slavs. Mongols. Muslims. Inuits. The free world stands with you. Slava Russia 🇷🇺
What wonderful, intimate footage. That man endured such heartbreak during his life, but he never abandoned integrity. His art is terribly honest…
As distorted as the sound is, it is incredibly special to see him play and compose. Great document.
If this is really from 1942, the symphony was already completed by then.
Nothing like a good cigarette after completing one of the greatest, heart-wrenching symphonies of all time that saved a city from endless despair. 👏 👏 👏 💖🇷🇺💥
He's such a badass
Not being Russian, we westerners can only try to imagine just how hard life must have been for Russians during this period. I note that even as he sits back and enjoys his smoke, his brain is still working .. as seen through his fingers. Wish i could see more real footage of that period. Does anyone have footage of camps in Siberia?
It is a mistake not to attribute Russians to Europe and Europeans. In the 20th century there was an attempt to drive Russia into Asia. I hope this attempt failed.
Ikr. Must be stressful. Shostakovich actually tries to attempt suicide once due to depression over this whole Revolution thingy but he wrote his 8th string quartet to promise himself not to do it instead. I can't believe i'm worried over a death person's mental health.
There were no camps in Siberia, they were near massive and important build sites, like Belomor and Volg-Don river channels or near cities ruined in the War.
Please read The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. Also, please watch
Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length)
@@goprodog4304 it’s the book my friend gave me few days ago!!!!
Dimitri Shostakovich was definitely a fantastic composer. His 9th symphony is one of my favorite pieces of music that I've learned about. He actually passed away the year my dad was born (1975).
3rd movement of this symphony -- never fails to raise my goosebumps.
That’s where his stress lived. Smoked like a chimney.
shosta is life!!!!!
forever
Shostakovich is the future
@@medvevaros1051 How so?
Among all of my fav classical composer i have a bigger amount of respect for Shosty. I think i don't have to explain why.
The symphonic soundtrack was proboably recorded by Samuil Samosud, the world premiere perfomer of the work.
One of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He works are ingenious; it's a shame he had to live in a time and in a country that was going through tremendous political upheaval. It dramatically affected his life and his work. He doesn't get enough credit,
One of the greatest composers of all time, I know all of his works and play all of his 24 Preludes and Fugues.
Even though it did limit his artistic freedom greatly, the events that he lived through also influenced his music in a positive way I would say. Limitations force artists to get creative in order to express themselves.
This is amazing, but I doubt you really need me to tell you, thanks so much for this!
Great Shostakovich!
"This man is a composer born."
Arnold Schoenberg
best symphonies: Beethoven, Mahler, sibelius and Shostakovich
Don't forget Haydn
Haydn and Mozart come in that category as well, also are you alive right now?
@Ricardo Acosta guy: comments his favorite symphonic composers in 2010
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@@WhiteTreeRightful facts
MOZART!!!!
How fascinating !!!!!
На Этом и держался Ленинград осаждённый и метроном!
I'm proud what I was born and live in Russia, In Saint- Petersburg!
No one else depicted Leningrad more than Dmitriy Dmitriyevich!
@@denpl Yes, thanks for uploading!
Have his piano reductions ever been published?
Dun dundun dundundundun 🎼🎹 DiMiDrI ShOsTaKoViTcH 🤖🗣️
Shostakovich RULES!!!3Α CTAΛNHA!
"Shostakovich rules! For Stalin!" ? You understand the irony, right?
@@itamarbar9580 Stalin was a great fan of Shostakovich, maybe the greatest, lol.
Shostakovich had a very good apartments, try to search for his house in St. Peterburg.
@@arseniynikitin7673 Indeed, Stalin was his fan, that's why Shostakovitch was bullied, his works weren't performed for a very long stretch of time, and he was one of the primary subjects of that awful soviet "revold against formalism", suffering along with Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Khachaturyan, and Muradeli, whose opera "Great Friendship" was named as an exemplar case of a "wrong antisoviet music".
That's how Shostakovitch was broken, actually. This symphony, Leningrad, was dedicated to the city because of a war, but it was initially composed to be anti-soviet. It's how the music feels: the man against the crushing government machine, listen carefully. But in the symphony, the man wins.
Still think Shostakovitch was glad to live in Soviet Union? Think again. Know his biography before saying ridiculous things.
Only in Russia. Fascist enemy at the gates and they've still got time for culture, music, books n museums. Can't be beaten. History is on the side of Mother Russia. Glory to all the Russian people, multi ethnic. Slavs. Mongols. Muslims. Inuits. The free world stands with you. Slava Russia 🇷🇺
This aged bad :(
Victory to Russia 🇷🇺
Go away putin's watnik