{"id":65483,"date":"2019-08-30T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra\/dmitrij-sjostakovitj\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:38:48","slug":"dmitry-shostakovich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/discover\/composers\/dmitry-shostakovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The life and career of the Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich was truly a roller coaster, from the sensational breakthrough of the first symphony in 1925, the two revolutionary sequels and three major ballets during the artistically free 1920s and 1930s, then the crash of the opera Lady MacBeth from Mtsensk 1936 &#8211; Stalin thought it sounded bad\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A few years later came the triumph with the Leningrad Symphony, the seventh, which was written under difficult conditions in the middle of a burning war in 1941 and then became a world success when the microfilmed scores were smuggled out with courier planes to the Allies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sjostakovitj-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the ban on his music in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s (&#8220;too formalistic&#8221;), the melting of ice after Stalin&#8217;s death in 1953 and then a milder 1960s when he as a &#8220;national composer&#8221; with his diligent pen could write for his own ear, right up to until his death in 1975. It undeniably went up and down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life and career of the Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich was truly a roller coaster, from the sensational breakthrough of the first symphony in 1925, the two revolutionary sequels and three major ballets during the artistically free 1920s and 1930s, then the crash of the opera Lady MacBeth from Mtsensk 1936 &#8211; Stalin thought it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":65452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/standard-large-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-18 17:49:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65483"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93482,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65483\/revisions\/93482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}