Shostakovich Biography Book

Text: Alexander Belyaev will cause the same storm of emotions a complex figure of Shostakovich that Matilda Kshesinskaya, the title heroine of the last picture of the teacher caused, we do not know. But we take a chance to assume what books about the great composer can help the director in this matter. Any director. Julian Barnes. They even see a Nobel! At school, he studied the Russian language, then he was imbued with all our troubles ...

Well, Shostakovich listens so long ago, carefully and carefully, which can be considered a real specialist in his work. Barnes insists: an affair with the Mandelstam name “The noise of time” and “marginal” concrete in the spirit of Sasha Sokolov is pure fiction, and it is not a biography. Much more important is, Russian readers of the Barnsov-sample-sample do not want to believe, because in the fatherland there was no writer who would dare to swing at such a figure.

So far, the artistic description of the terrible life of the great laureate of the Stalin Prize is read from English. In very musical, it should be noted, the translation of Elena Petrova.

Why is this book for filming good? We repeat ourselves - the historical reliability, although experts and fans and here combed small fleas. Voice: an internal monologue in the third person or an inconsistent speech, but, so to speak, with “modulations” in another discourse. As a result, the reader seems to live in Shostakovich’s head. And the viewer will not go anywhere from it.

Kshishtof Meyer. The author of the Jeszele biography of Shostakovich Kshishtof Meyer is a Polish composer and musicologist, who studied with outstanding figures of the Polish post -war avant -garde - Krzishtof Penderetsky and Vitold Lutoslavsky. Moreover, Meyer managed to get acquainted and chat with Dmitry Dmitrievich himself. What is Shostakovich as a composer and as a person? About this is his book.

Levon Akopyan. But in general, the monograph of Akopyan, in which Shostakovich’s work seems to be as a holistic phenomenon associated with a wide variety of phenomena of culture and art, from Gnosticism to acmeism, is considered exhaustive. Mikhail Ardov. In his youth, Mikhail was friends with the children of Shostakovich - Galina and Maxim. Therefore, Dmitry Dmitrievich Ardov, Jr., himself in the 50th often saw himself often, but was talked to-not enough, because the composer "was tightly closed to outsiders, which, of course, belonged to his son and daughter." The book - the stories of the children of Shostakovich about the father.

Solomon Volkov. Memories of Dmitry Shostakovich ”In the year, a former Soviet citizen, musicologist Solomon Volkov published a book of Shostakovich memoirs in the original is called Testimony. This book glorified Volkov in the West, and, in general, it remains the main source of biographical information about Shostakovich for the Western reader. The piquancy of the situation is that no one still can prove: is it genuine memoirs or not?

By the way, Barnes himself could not pass this book. Say, and the authenticity is in question-no one saw the manuscript-but you can’t read it! Links on the topic:.