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Dmitri Shostakovich
wrote
funeral march
in
1918
in memory of two leaders of the Kadet party, murdered by Bolshevik sailors.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
enroled in
Petrograd Conservatory
in
1919
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756855
Dmitri Shostakovich
studied piano with
Leonid Nikolayev
in
1919
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756856
Dmitri Shostakovich
studied piano with
Elena Rozanova
in
1919
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756857
Dmitri Shostakovich
in
1925
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756853
Dmitri Shostakovich
composed
First Symphony
in
1926
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756858
1927
Dmitri Shostakovich
won
honorable mention First International at Chopin Piano Competition
in
1927
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756859
Dmitri Shostakovich
met
Bruno Walter
in
1927
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756861
Dmitri Shostakovich
wrote
Second Symphony
in
1927
(subtitled To October), a patriotic piece with a great pro-Soviet choral finale
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756862
Dmitri Shostakovich
became friends with
Ivan Sollertinsky
in
1927
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756863
Dmitri Shostakovich
got sick with
appendicitis
on
4/15/1927
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756860
Dmitri Shostakovich
in
1929
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Dmitri Shostakovich
wrote
The Nose
in
1929
based on the story by Nikolai Gogol
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756864
1932
Dmitri Shostakovich
married
Nina Varzar
in
1932
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756866
Dmitri Shostakovich
wrote
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
in
1934
It was immediately successful, on both popular and official levels
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756865
Dmitri Shostakovich
divorced
Nina Varzar
in
1935
...
756867
Dmitri Shostakovich
married
Nina Varzar
in
1935
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756893
Dmitri Shostakovich
had a child
Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich
on
5/30/1935
...
756869
Dmitri Shostakovich
wrote
Fourth Symphony
in
1936
...
756876
Dmitri Shostakovich
visited
Opera
on
1/26/1936
to hear Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
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1937
Dmitri Shostakovich
composed
Fifth Symphony
in
1937
which was musically more conservative than his earlier works
...
756878
Dmitri Shostakovich
got a job as
composition teacher at the Leningrad Conservatory
on
9/1/1937
...
756881
Dmitri Shostakovich
premiered
Fifth Symphony
on
11/21/1937
in Leningrad, it was a phenomenal success
...
756879
Dmitri Shostakovich
on
12/15/1937
" I'll never believe that a man who understood nothing could feel the Fifth Symphony. Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth was about"
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756880
Dmitri Shostakovich
received
Prix Goncourt
in
1941
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Dmitri Shostakovich
received
Prix Goncourt
in
1942
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Dmitri Shostakovich
composed
Eighth Symphony
in
1943
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756883
Dmitri Shostakovich
moved to
Moscow
on
3/15/1943
...
756882
1945
Dmitri Shostakovich
composed
Ninth Symphony
in
1945
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756884
Dmitri Shostakovich
with
Sergei Prokofiev
in
1945
Aram Khachaturian
...
756889
Dmitri Shostakovich
got a job as
a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
in
1947
...
756885
Dmitri Shostakovich
received
Prix Goncourt
in
1950
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-323561
Dmitri Shostakovich
received
USSR State Prize
in
1950
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Dmitri Shostakovich
in
1950
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756852
Dmitri Shostakovich
in
1950
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1958
Dmitri Shostakovich
received
Lenin Prize
in
1958
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Dmitri Shostakovich
joined
Communist Party
in
1960
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756886
Dmitri Shostakovich
performed
Fourth Symphony
on
12/30/1961
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756877
Dmitri Shostakovich
married
Irina Supinskaya
in
1962
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756887
Dmitri Shostakovich
in
1962
to
Glikman
" her only defect is that she is 27 years old. In all other respects she is splendid: clever, cheerful, straightforward and very likeable."
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756888
Dmitri Shostakovich
died
on
8/9/1975
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