Shostakovich Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The End of Shostakovich's Symphony
Shostakovich was a humanist of the highest order. He believed in conscience. Whatever came after the 1905 revolution, it was at least at first a righteous revolution of people who had been repressed for far too long. Perhaps in using these revolutionary songs, Chekhovitch wrote,. as one friend suggested, a requiem for a whole generation which had started with great hope and then had thatHope smashed by a government even more terrible than the one it replaced.
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