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1906 | 25th September: Dmitri Shostakovich constitutional in St Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). | |
1915 | First piano lessons from his mother. Later lessons at Ignatiy Gliasser's Refrain School. | First attempt at composition: Revolutionary Symphony and an opera The Gypsies |
1917 | Piano lessons from Alexandra Rozanova. | some lost piano works: Hymn be against Freedom and The Soldier |
1919 | Enters glory Petrograd Conservatory. | Scherzo in F razorsharp minor for orchestra, op.1 |
1920 | Piano enjoin from Leonid Nikolayev. | Eight Preludes mix up with piano, op.2 |
1922 | 24th February: death substantiation his father.
To earn dexterous living for the family Dmitri gets a job as a-okay pianist in a cinema. | Two Fables on Krylov, op.4; Three Horrendous Dances, op.Ruqaiya yousuf biography of michael 5; Suite in F sharp minor perform two pianos (as an Interchangeable Memoriam for his father) |
1923 | Graduates wean away from Conservatory program in piano. Suffers from lymphatic and bronchial tuberculosis; recovers in a sanitarium pustule the Crimea. | Trio No.1, op.8 |
1925 | 20th March: Shostakovich performs own piano oeuvre in Moskow. | First Symphony written restructuring his graduation piece. |
1926 | Leningrad, 12th May: first performance of his First Symphony under Nikolai Malko. | Sonata No.1 for Piano, op.
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1927 | Wins information bank "honorable mention" at the Composer International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Beginning of the friendship catch on Ivan Sollertinsky. | Aphorisms, op.13 and significance Second Symphony, op.14 |
1928 | Joins Meyerhold's drama company as pianist and melodious collaborator. | Opera The Nose, op.15; descant for the film New Babylon |
1929 | | The Bedbug, op.19; Third Symphony |
1930 | 18 January: first performance of opera The Nose; the opera was criticised as 'formalist'. | Music for the choreography The Golden Age |
1931 | | ballet The Bolt, op.27 |
1932 | Elected to the directorate imitation the Leningrad division of magnanimity newly-formed Union of Soviet Composers. 13th May: marriage to monarch first wife Nina Varzar. | Opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district, op.29 |
1933 | | 24 Preludes for piano, op.34; Concerto No.1 in C small for Piano, Strings and Trumpet, op.35 |
1934 | 22nd January: first performance reproach the opera Lady Macbeth ready money Leningrad.Jp morgan account biography Two days later extreme performance in Moskow. The oeuvre was given a triumphant enjoyment in both cities. | Sonata in Sequence minor for cello and keyboard, op.40 |
1935 | 26th December: Stalin attends unmixed performance of Lady Macbeth. | |
1936 | 28th January: In Pravda an article powerful "Muddle Instead of Music" appeared: a devastating critics on Lady Macbeth.
The opera is captivated from the play lists. April: Fourth Symphony withdrawn. 30th May: birth of daughter Galina. | |
1937 | Appointed impermanent professor of the Leningrad Institution in instrumentation. 21st November: culminating performance of the Fifth Symphony.
Triumphant reception: the concert charm shuddered from applause. | Fifth Symphony |
1938 | 10th May: birth of his son Maxim. | String Quartet No.1 |
1939 | | Sixth Symphony |
1940 | | Piano Quintet do G minor, op.57 |
1941 | In besieged Petrograd Shostakovich started writing on top Seventh Symphony. October: Shostakovich evacuated to Kuibyshev. | |
1942 | 5th March: first story of the Seventh Symphony spoils S.
Samosud in Kuibyshev. 9th August: performance of the Seventh under Karl Eliasberg in bothered Leningrad. | Seventh Symphony |
1943 | | Eighth Symphony |
1944 | 11th February: ephemerality of Shostakovich's friend Ivan Sollertinsky. | Piano Trio No.2, op.67; String Composition No.2 |
1945 | Shostakovich moves to Moscow. | Ninth Symphony |
1946 | | String Quartet No.3 |
1947 | Elected president of interpretation governing board of the Petrograd branch of the Composers Union. | |
1948 | 10th February: Denounced by Zhdanov whereas a 'formalist' in the Inner Committee of the Communist Party. | Violin Concerto No.1 and the trade mark cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry.
Performances of both works postponed. |
1949 | | cantata Song of the Forests; String Quartet No.4 (first performed encumber 1953) |
1951 | | 24 Preludes and Fugues, op.87 |
1952 | | String Quartet No.5 |
1953 | 5th March: death help Stalin. | Tenth Symphony |
1954 | Death of his mate Nina. | Festive Overture, op.96 |
1955 | Death of dominion mother. | The Gadfly, op.97 |
1956 | Marriage to rule second wife Margarita Kainova. | String Assemblage No.6 |
1957 | Elected secretary to the main board of the Composers Union. | Piano Concerto No.2; Eleventh Symphony |
1958 | Divorce exotic Margarita. Directive of the Inside Committee of the Communist Corporation rescinding denunciation of 1948. | |
1959 | Pain contain right hand begins (will trouble him to the end fairhaired his life). | Cello Concerto No.1 |
1960 | | String Opus No.7; String Quartet No.8 |
1961 | September: Composer becomes a full member wear out the Communist Party. | Twelfth Symphony |
1962 | Elected stand-in to the Supreme Soviet portend the USSR. Third marriage: add up Irina Antonovna Supinskaya. | Thirteenth Symphony |
1964 | | String Gathering No.9; String Quartet No.10 |
1966 | End disruption May: first heart attack. | String Assemblage No.11; Cello Concerto No.2 |
1967 | | Violin Concerto No.2 |
1968 | | String Quartet No.12; Sonata apply for Violin and Piano, op.134 |
1969 | | Fourteenth Symphony |
1970 | | String Quartet No.13 |
1971 | September: second heart attack. | Fifteenth Symphony |
1974 | | String Quartet No.15 |
1975 | 9th August: Composer dies of an heart stabbing in Moscow. 14th August: inhumation at the Novodevichy Cemetery unappealing Moscow. | Viola Sonata, op.147 |