Dmitri Shostakovich Essay

Dmitri Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906 in St. Petersburg Russia. He was the second of 3 kids from Sofia Kokalouina (pianist), and Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostrakovich (chemical engineer). Dmitris mom, Sofia, taught him how to play the piano at age 9, and Dmitri stood out(p) as a prodigy. When Dmitri dour 13 his parents enrolled him in St. Petersburg Conservatory which is where he began to study piano and composition. In 1925 Dmitri graduate from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and wrote his 1st classical melody which he named, 1st symphony, as his graduation piece.After Dmitri graduated from the conservatory, he worked as a concert pianist for money and self-possessed pieces in his spare time. Later, after much work, Dmitri managed to win the honorable citation award at the Warsaw International Piano Competition in 1927. After the contest, composer Bruno Walter very much impressed offered to conduct his 1st Symphony in Berlin. In 1927 Dmitri finished his 2nd Symphon y and started working on his 1st opera house which he would name, The Nose. In 1930 he in the end finished it and premiered it unless it turned out to be a failure.It got poor people reviews from people like Dmitri Kabalevsky who criticized his music for political reasons. It was so bad that the opera got banned from Russia. Dmitri was devastated and had a nervous breakdown and later had suicidal thoughts, plainly was treated. Later on Dmitri met a woman named Nina Varzar and married her in 1932. The spousal went well until 1935 when they divorced over a long period of discussions, exactly later on they got reunited. World War II broke with Germany in 1941 and Dmitri served as a fire warden for a propaganda poster, only when he hushed found time to write his 7th Symphony.This symphony was very fashionable and served as a form of inspiration for the Russian army. Feeling thoroughgoing(a) Dmitri wrote his 8th symphony which was very different from his 7th. This piece too turn ed out to be banned from Russia until 1960. In the mid 1940s Dmitri wrote his violin Concerto No. 1 and it was a success. And in 1949 he composed The striving of the Forests and making Joseph Stalin (Russias dictator during the time) the great gardener it was accepted and desire by the people.After Stalins death in 1953 Dmitri composed his tenth symphony which was practically dedicated to him. In 1954 Dmitris wife Nina died , and he stayed alone for 2 years until he met Margarita Kainova in 1956 and married her, but divorced in 1959. Later on in 1960 Dmitri joined the communist Party (something he wanted to do since he was very young) but then regretted it. Then in 1962 he married again to a woman named Irina Supinskaya. The fact that their ages differenced by 29 years didnt take to them because they stayed together until Dmitris death.