[PDF.21ck] Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

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#273850 in Books Candlewick Press MA 2015-09-22 2015-09-22Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.30 x 1.35 x 6.23l, 1.25 #File Name: 0763668184464 pagesCandlewick Press MA0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The book weaves a biography of one of the 20th centuries best composers and WWII into a very personal narrativeBy SanchoAs a musician and history buff, I found this book fascinating. The book weaves a biography of one of the 20th centuries best composers and WWII into a very personal narrative. I found myself going back to listen to Shostakovich's symphonies and string quartets with a new appreciation. The book has many interpretations and vieFrom School Library JournalGr 9 UpThis ambitious and gripping work is narrative nonfiction at its best. Anderson expertly sets the scene of the tumultuous world into which Dmitri Shostakovich was born in 1906 and traces his development as an artist and a public figure. He also tells the story of theA 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitlers Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western historyalmost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter o...

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