{"id":936,"date":"2017-07-27T16:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=936"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:28:14","slug":"936-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=936","title":{"rendered":"Music in Soviet Russia III: From 1953 to the death of Shostakovich"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gareth Curtis<\/p>\n

To all appearances, this period of Russian music was dominated by the work of Shostakovich \u2013 and, judging by the succession of masterpieces which flowed from his hand, he seems to have thrived creatively in the less repressive years which followed Stalin\u2019s death. Of course, the real picture was far more complicated as composer and state continued their uneasy cat-and-mouse game. Also, though, there are a number of lesser-known but significant composers whose music is well worth exploring: a first group who were roughly contemporary with or slightly younger than Shostakovich, and a second, more radical group who emerged during the 1960s and 70s.<\/p>\n

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