Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 11 in G minor

DS 1030

Subtitles
"The Year 1905"

Form
Symphony for full orchestra

Movements
1. Palace Square - Adagio attacca
2. Ninth of January - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Adagio attacca
3. Eternal Memory - Adagio attacca
4. The Toscin - Allegro non troppo - Allegro - Moderato - Adagio - Allegro

Composed
Summer 1957 at Komarovo. Completed on 4 August 1957.
Written to mark the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution.

First performance
30 October 1957, Moscow Conservatory Bolshoi Hall
by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin

Arrangements
Reduction for piano four hands by the composer