Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Dmitry Shostakovich was an artist who was born in 1906. The artist's work has ...

It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...

Aside from the obvious marketing hooks, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich this week gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the less-explored music ...

After composing an operatic adaptation of “Macbeth” that displeased Stalin, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich told a friend: “Even if they cut off both my hands, I shall continue to write music ...

The 20th-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich might be best known for his conflicted but patriotic symphonies, his daring operas, including two takes on Nikolai Leskov’s novella “Lady Macbeth ...

Symphony No. 1 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Symphony No. 6 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, ...

San José Chamber Orchestra will perform PAUSE, featuring works by Samuel Barber, Dmitri Shostakovich, Juhi Bansal, and ...