Dmitri Shostakovich
 
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Sources

books consulted

Ardov, Revd. Michael - "Memories of Shostakovich" - 2004, Short Books, London

Blokker, Roy ; Dearling, Robert - "The Music of Shostakovich. The Symphonies" - 1979, The Tantivy Press, London

Brockhaus, Heinz Alfred - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch" - Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig

Dubinsky, Rostislav - "Stormy Applause. Making Music in a Workers State" - 1989, Hutchinson, London

Fanning, David - "The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich's Tenth" - 1989, Royal Music Association, London

Fanning, David - "Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8" - 2004, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot

Fay, Laurel E. (Ed.) - "Shostakovich and his world" - 2004, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Feuchtner, Bernd - "Dimitri Schostakowitsch [Und Kunst geknebelt von der grossen Macht]" - 2002, Bärenreiter, Kassel

Glikman, Isaak - "Story of a Friendship [The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1975]" - 2001, Cornell University Press, New York

Gojowy, Detlef - "Sjostakovitsj" - 1992, Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen

Houten, Theodore van - "Dmitri Sjostakovitsj. Een leven in angst" - 2006, Van Gruting, Westervoort

Hulme, Derek C. - "Shostakovich. A Catalogue, Bibliography, and Discography" - Third edition, 2002, Scarecrow Press

Jackson, Stephen - "Dmitri Shostakovich. An essential guide to his life and works" - 1997, Pavilion Books Ltd., London

Kopp, Karen - "Form und Gehalt der Symphonien des Dmitrij Schostakowitsch" - 1990, Verlag für systematische Musikwissenschaft GmbH, Bonn

Kuhn, Ernst (Ed.) - "Volksfeind Dmitri Schostakowitsch [Eine Dokumentation der öffentlichen Angriffe gegen den Komponisten in der ehemaligen Sovietunion]" - 1997, Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin

Kuhn, Ernst (Ed.) - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch und das jüdische musikalische Erbe" - 2001, Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin

Laux, Prof.Dr. Karl - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Chronist seines Volkes" - 1966, Deutscher Kulturbund, Berlin

Leeuwen, Jos van - "Sjostakovitsj" - 1987, J.H. Gottmer, Haarlem

Lukyanova, N.V. - "Shostakovich" - 1984, Paganiniana Publications, Neptune City

Martynov, Ivan - "Shostakovich. The Man and his Work" - 1947, Philosophical Library, New York

Menuhin, Yehudi - "Unfinished Journey" - 1977, MacDonald and Jane's, London

Meyer, Krzysztof - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch" - 1980, Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig

Meyer, Krzysztof - "Sjostakovitsj" - 1996, Atlas, Amsterdam/Antwerpen

Moshevich, Sofia - "Dmitri Shostakovich - Pianist" - 2004, McGill-Queen's University Press, London

Norris, Christopher (Ed.) - "Shostakovich. The Man and his Music" - 1989, Lawrence & Wishart, London

Ottaway, Hugh - "Shostakovich Symphonies" - 1978, BBC Publications

Rabinovich, D. - "Dmitry Shostakovich, Composer" - 1959, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow

Riley, John - "Dmitri Shostakovich. A Life in Film" - 2005, I.B. Tauris, London/New York

Roseberry, Eric - "Shostakovich. His life and times" - 1982, Midas Books, Tunbridge Wells

Schostakowitsch, Dmitri - "Erfahrungen" - 1983, Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig

Schostakowitsch, Dmitri - "Neunhundert Tage [Zeugnisse von der heldenhaften Verteidigung Leningrads im Grossen Vaterländischen Krieg]"- 1960, Dietz Verlag, Berlin

Schwarz, Boris - "Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia 1917-1970" - 1976, Barrie and Jenkins, London

Seehaus, Lothar - "Dmitrij Schostakowitsch. Leben und Werk" - 1986, Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven

Seroff, Victor - "Dmitri Shostakovich. The life and background of a soviet composer" - 1943, Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Sheinberg, Esti - "Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the music of Shostakovich [A Theory of Musical Incongruities]" - 2000, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot

Shostakovich, Dmitri (and others) - "Russian Symphony. Thoughts about Tchaikovsky" - 1947, Philosophical Library, New York

Shostakovich, Dmitri - "About Himself and His Times" - 1981, Progress Publishers, Moscow

Sollertinski, Iwan - "Von Mozart bis Schostakowitsch" - 1979, Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig

Sollertinski, Iwan - "Gustav Mahler. Der Schrei ins Leere" - 1996, Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin

Stadt Duisburg, Dezernat für Bildung und Kultur - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge 1984/85" - 1984, Stadt Duisburg

Streller, Friedbert - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Für Sie porträtiert" - 1987, VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig

Volkov, Solomon - "Getuigenis" - 3e druk, 1995, Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam

Volkov, Solomon - "Shostakovich and Stalin" - 2004, Little, Brown, London

Wilson, Elizabeth - "Shostakovich. A Life Remembered" - Third printing, 1995, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

Wolter, Günter - "Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Eine sowjetische Tragödie" - 1991, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main

publications

Brown, Greg - "'Symphony' and Simfonizm in Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony: Unusual Genesis as Key to Shostakovich's Concept of Symphony" [ PDF ]
2005, The University of Georgia, Music Research Symposium


Katz, Jonah - "Shostakovich and the Soviet State" [ PDF ]
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Jonah Katz)


McKay, Cory - "Political Influences on the Music of Shostakovich" [ PDF ]
2000, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (Cory McKay)


Miller, Paul - "Baroque Forms in Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op.57" [ PDF ]
2005, The University of Georgia, Music Research Symposium


Rotjan, Matthew - "Hidden Meaning and Musical Allusion within the String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich" [ PDF ]
Ithaca College School of Music (Matt Rotjan's Page)

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