Prais
Leonid Girshovich
1998
“The tragic element in Shostakovich’s worldview” is the subject of longstanding debate. Was it a prophetic dream of Soviet Jewry, the spirit of which weighed on Shostakovich even in his youth? His enemies would have liked that: a prophet of the Jewish apocalypse, he foresaw his people’s apocalypse. Nonetheless, it is impossible to imagine…
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