The Life of Dmitri Shostakovich

Answer the questions relating to Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s life and music.

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Last updated: April 8, 2017

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Hint	Answer
City where he was born (name at the time)	St. Petersburg
Where he studied composition	Leningrad Conservatory
Teacher at above	Alexander Glazunov
First ballet, premiered 1930	The Golden Age
Opera, premiered 1934	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Article that led to his first denunciation	Muddle Instead of Music
Red Army marshal, friend of Shostakovich, executed in 1936	Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Friend and conductor of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra	Yevgeny Mravinsky
City he was evacuated to in 1941 (name at the time)	Kuibyshev
Conductor at the Leningrad premiere of the 7th Symphony	Karl Eliasberg

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1948 song cycle: "From ______ ____ ______"	From Jewish Folk Poetry
Suite featuring Waltz No. 2	Suite for Variety Orchestra
Political event that the 12th Symphony was written about	Russian Revolution of 1917
String quartet that may have been a suicide note	String Quartet No. 8
13th Symphony subtitle	Babi Yar
Son who became a pianist and conductor	Maxim Shostakovich
Famous four-note motif	DSCH
Alleged memoirs, published 1979	Testimony
Editor of the above	Solomon Volkov
1980 Summer Olympics theme music	Festive Overture