Irina Antonovna SHOSTAKOVICH was born in Leningrad on November 30th, 1934. She later studied Russian Language and Litterature at the Pedagogical Institute. She worked in music publishing until 1964 as a literary editor. The Russian literary scholar Irina Antonovna Shostakovich (b. 1934) was the composer's third wife. They married in 1962. [Interview translated from the Russian] How would you explain the development of a friendship and creative relationship between Britten and Shostakovich?
Pedro Beltrán / Irina Antonovna, la esposa judia de Shostakovich
The Ninth Quartet was dedicated to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, a young editor he married in 1962. Background The final version of the Ninth Quartet was preceded by another which Shostakovich admitted to partially destroying: [I]n an attack of healthy self-criticism, I burnt it in the stove. Meyer continues: "In any case, a few days after his marriage to Irina Antonovna (autumn 1962), […] his wife was clearly told (as she told): 'Your husband's illness is incurable.' In the years. OSCOW -- Irina Shostakovich is the widow of Dmitri Shostakovich. They married in 1962, and she was his third wife. The following are her reflections, translated by Irina Roberts, on her. Composer and Honorary President of Deutsche Schostakowitsch-Gesellschaft e. V. Wolfgang Rothe. Managing Director of Sächsische Staatstheater. Christian Thielemann. Principal Conductor of Staatskapelle Dresden. Emmanuel Utwiller. Director of Centre Dimitri Chostakovitch Paris. Jan Nast. Managing Director of Wiener Symphoniker.
Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife Irina with their cat shostakovich
Shostakovich and Irina Antonovna on a train travelling from New York. See more 8989 Since that time, research carried out in the Archive of D.D. Shostakovich, founded by the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in 1975, and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture has significantly raised the level of international Shostakovich studies. To Irina Antonovna Shostakovich 6 I Moderato con moto - 4:22 7 II Adagio - 4:32 8 III Allegretto - 4:14 9 IV Adagio - 3:03 10 V Allegro 10:03 String Quartet No. 10, Op. 118 (1964) 25:24 in A flat major • in As-Dur • en la bémol majeur To Moisey [Mieczysław] Samuilovich Weinberg 11 I Andante 4:25 12 II Allegretto furioso 4:04 When Shostakovich Studies was published in 1995, archival research in the ex-Soviet Union was only just beginning. Since that time, research carried out in the Shostakovich Family Archive, founded by the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in 1975, and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture has significantly raised the level of international Shostakovich studies.
Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich with his wife Irina Dmitri Shostakovich, Steve
The String Quartet no. 9 in E flat major, opus 117, and the Tenth String Quartet were written within three months of each other in the middle of 1964. Together they mark the transition from the central phase of Shostakovich's string quartets, to those of his final phase: the quartets 11 to 15. Officially the Ninth Quartet was written between. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich dedicated his String Quartet No.7 Op.108, written in 1960, to the memory of his first wife, Nina Vazar, and the String Quartet No.9 Op.117 to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Supinskaya, whom he married in 1962. The composer's private and artistic life had been devastated by the loss of
Shostakovich was a man of contradictions. The family memories collected in the monograph by Seroff convey the picture of an unusually gifted young man, incredibly hard-working, keen to improve the living standards of his family - and, simultaneously, an everyday nuisance.. Irina Antonovna switched on the tape-recorder and Shostakovich sat. Mutual admiration. Dmitri Shostakovich (left) with Benjamin Britten in 1966. Photograph: RIA Novosti Classical music Rebels with a cause: the friendship of Britten and Shostakovich The two.
People s Artist of the U S S R composer Dmitry Shostakovich with his wife Irina right strolling
The composer's widow, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, was in the audience, lending the performance a real sense of occasion. Originally envisioned to be a full three-act work with prologue, Shostakovich never got beyond the prologue, which was found in the composer's archives by musicologist Olga Disonskaya in 2004. Often, Irina Antonovna was the first person with whom he shared his new works, at the piano. He dedicated his Suite on Verses of Michelangelo to her because she had assisted, at the typewriter, in the composition of this work.. Irina Shostakovich: interviews, 2006/07. Post by barney » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:34 am Thanks for these posts. I read.
