Definition of Shostakovich

1. Noun. Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Shostakovich

Shor
Shor's algorithm
Shore
Shorea
Shorea teysmanniana
Short's aster
Short-eared Dog
Shortia galacifolia
Shoshone
Shoshonean
Shoshonean language
Shoshones
Shoshoni
Shoshonian
Shoshonian language
Shostakovich (current term)
Shotokan
Shover
Show Me State
ShpII metalloprotease
ShpI metalloprotease
Shraddha
Shrapnell
Shrapnell's membrane
Shravas
Shreveport
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury cake
Shrewsbury cakes
Shrimper

Literary usage of Shostakovich

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)
"Its chief victims were Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian, each of them a ... The case of Shostakovich was more disturbing. ..."

2. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"He created his harmonic idiom by modifying the harmonic system of classical Russian music. See also Gunter Wolter. Dimitri Shostakovich: eine ..."

3. Riga & Its Beachesby Farrol Kahn by Farrol Kahn (2000)
"That's typical of Shostakovich'. in the richness and depth of the melody. There are certain gestures which you would find in Shostakovich for example. ..."

4. Riga & Its Beachesby Farrol Kahn by Farrol Kahn (2004)
"That's typical of Shostakovich'. in the richness and depth of the melody. There are certain gestures which you would find in Shostakovich for example. ..."

5. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"... Prokofieff, Shostakovich, Debussy, and Dohnanyi. Wilson Stone was married to the former Jean Lampman, who also had been an assistant to HJ Muller. ..."

6. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... and Shostakovich (b. 1906). FINANCE A new. " heavy " Rouble was introduced on January i, 1961. Prices and wages have been changed accordingly at the ..."

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