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Shostakovich Myths Debunked

Details the exposure of Volkov's "Testimony" fraud and other lies, errors, fantasies, twisted scholarship and wishful thinking in the West's cold war version (still egregious in far too many CD liner notes, and despite pounds of onanistic "reconsidering") of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

Contents

·        Volkov's "Testimony"

·        Brief Review of Wilson's "Shostakovich- A Life Remembered" (including other books of interest.)

·        Re: alt.fan.shostakovich

·        Shostakovich Reality Check

·        Shostakovich and Soviet society - "It remains hugely ironic that, of all things, Soviet music should attain a cult popularity among certain right-wingers of today based on the wholly imaginary anti-Sovietism of Soviet composers. What is doubly ironic is that, thanks to the school of Socialist Realism, Soviet music is the only 20th century music they (think they) can understand."

·        Bibliography

Links

• Onno van Rijen's Home Page (lots of wonderful material re Shostakovich and other Soviet composers)
• Eric Schissel's Miaskovski Page
• Eric Schissel's Vainberg Page (under construction, already much of interest)

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