Bestselling Titles: Dmitri Shostakovich

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Piano Concerto No.2 in F major Op 102 (Hawkes Pocket Scores series)

$20.56

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Piano Concerto No.2 in F major Op 102 (red. 2 pianos 4 hands)

$23.72

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Waltz (from "Jazz Suite No.2") for salon orchestra (score & parts)

$34.80

Shostakovich, Dmitri

String Quartet No.8 in C minor Op 110 (Hawkes Pocket Scores series)

$14.23

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony No.5 in D minor Op 47 (New Collected Works vol.5) full score

$94.95

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony No.5 in D minor Op 47 (Hawkes Pocket Scores series)

$25.31

Shostakovich was one of the leading composers of the 20th century, and was Soviet Russia’s most important symphonist. Unlike some of his composer contemporaries, he lived his adult life entirely inside the USSR - and his music was deeply affected by political events there, especially under Stalin. Whilst an absolute master of large-scale forms, the character of his music, with its invitingly enjoyable dissonances, has a humorously powerful sense of mockery and irony mixed with grandeur and despair.

"What are human emotions? Not only lyricism, sadness and tragedy, but laughter. When a listener laughs loudly during my symphonic concert, it doesn’t shock me a bit. On the contrary, it pleases me." — Dmitri Shostakovich

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