Dr.Kroik by Jessica

Objectives:

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Students will learn who Dmitri Shostakovich is and what he compose.
Learn and study about his life.
Learn about what inspired him to become a composer.
Learn about his early life and what he did.

Fast facts # 1

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Shostakovich was a perfectionist not only in music, but in his personal life: according to his daughter he was “obsessed with cleanliness”; he synchronized the clocks in his apartment; or he would regularly send cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.

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Fast fact #2

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Shostakovich loved soccer, was a certified referee and also liked card games. His favorite team was Zenit Leningrad.

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Dmitri at a soccr game!

Fast Fact # 3

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Shostakovich was only 26 when he completed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

Fast Fact #4

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His Eighth String Quartet, Op. 110, was written from start to finish over the span of just three days.

Fast Fact #5

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Shostakovich is also regarded as a great film composer.

Fun Fact #6

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Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 is one of the most recognized classical music pieces in the world.

Early life:

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BORN:

25th September 1906 in St Petersburg, Russia.

DIED:

9th August 1975 in Moscow, Russia.

BURIED:

Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

What he's known for:

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TYPE OF MUSIC:

Modern classical music.

SOME GREAT PIECES:

Symphonies, especially No. 5 and Nos. 7–15.
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2.
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2.
The opera ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’.
String Quartets, especially Nos. 8 and 15.
24 Preludes and Fugues for the piano.

Fast Fact #7

jessy1rivera — 2016-01-28 22:51:45 UTC

You can't understand Shostakovich’s music without understanding what Russia was like at the time. From the middle of the 1930s until the 1950s, or even later, Russia was a very scary place. Many people in Russia were getting into trouble with the government. The punishment for this was often very harsh.

Fast Fact # 8

jessy1rivera — 2016-01-28 22:56:23 UTC

He wrote Symphony No. 7 during the Siege of Leningrad—an awful time dirring World War Two when the Germans cut off Leningrad (now St Petersburg) for over two years and thousands of people died. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 expresses what it was like to live throught that siege.

Early life:

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Shostakovich was the son of an engineer. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, subsequently Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg.

After his keyboard days:

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before his keyboard success in Warsaw, he had had a far greater success as a composer with the Paul Hindemith (and, avowedly, Shostakovich’s contemporary Sergey Prokofiev) is clearly discernible.

Test Time!!!!!!!

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Symphony #7

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Symphony # 5

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