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Shostakovich is clearly regarded as one of the small group of the twentieth century’s most significant composers. Yet, on no other of his peers has more ink been spilt attempting to understand what thought processes and motivations reveal a composer’s own true self than that on Shostakovich.
Was he a musically gifted, but incredibly naïve, tool of the worst instincts of Stalinism--or, a wondrously deceptive, resident critic of the terrors of Soviet Communism? Shostakovich left a maddeningly ambiguous record of his inner thoughts.
Biography.He certainly was capable of writing the most satirical compositions that scathingly excoriated the excesses and flaws of Western Democracies. But his informing contribution was his music of dark and profound passion that laments the fundamental tragedies of universal human experience.
It is tempting for those who enjoy easy freedoms of artistic expression to hold others from other times to a higher moral standard and t