Word: shastakowitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor spells it "Szostakowicz," Columbia "Shastakowitch," and to the general public it means some of the best music to come out of Europe since Strauss and Sibelius said their last important says. He is already considered by many critics the White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back...
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