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Why is so formidable Shostakovich?

I'm listening to the 4th symphony, is a beautiful composition, but is almost 11 at night and I fear for her! It's like tiny insects crawling around a wooden floor creaking, is the impression I get from the music now. Did you ever feel that music? it is also quite "scary" http://www.last.fm/music/Dmitri+Shostakovich/_/Chm+Sym+for+Strs Op.110a% 2C% 3A + Allegro +% 3A + Attacca

Since the previous two contributors have correctly said, Shostakovich lived in very scary. He was only 11 at the time of the Revolution Russian and so she lived all his adult life under the oppressive Communist regimes of Lenin, Stalin (most frightening of all), Khrushchev and Brezhnev. More than once Shostakovich was dragged over the coals for not conforming to socialist ideals. The Fourth Symphony has been listening to you was written in 1936, however, was withdrawn from trials and not played to the public until 1961. It was written shortly after Shostakovich had been maimed ruthlessly by Soviet authorities to his opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk "(one of his masterpieces) and warned him that for the premiere of this daring and 'fear' work the land, even in large problems. He waited until the times of Khrushchev's relatively lenient before letting you perform. His first violin concerto and symphonies had delayed similar Tenth up releases after Stalin's death in 1953. It is said on good authority that Shostakovich was so afraid that one day I would be arrested and sent to a labor camp that had a suitcase small under his bed at all times in case the KGB came to call the door in the middle of the night. Shostakovich was very brave, though, because endelessly added the hidden codes in his music which he ridiculed the Soviet regime. Fortunately for him, most of the servants of the party were too stupid like to recognize them. Nobody who has not lived in such terrible circumstances can possibly imagine what it must have been like to exist and work in these circumstances. No wonder Much of Shostakovich's music could be perceived as "scary" by some.

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