Shostakovich Quotes

• Muchos consideran a Shostakovich el mejor compositor del siglo XX. En sus 15 sinfonías, 15 cuartetos y otras obras demostró su dominio de las formas más grandes y desafiantes, con música de gran fuerza emocional e invención técnica... Todas sus obras están marcadas por extremos emocionales: intensidad trágica, ingenio grotesco y bizarro, humor, parodia y sarcasmo salvaje.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Sarcasm, Emotional, Symphony

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• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

  Dave Brubeck

  Symphony, Want, Pieces

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• The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

  Edward Abbey

  Symphony, Form, Critics

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.40, RosettaBooks.

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.41, RosettaBooks.

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• Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

  Charles James

  Mediums, Mines, Happens

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• Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Children, Home, Russia

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Friendship, Spiritual, Light

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• I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Symphony, Wife, Way

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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