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In 1943, young Rostropovich entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Dmitri Shostakovich.
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He favoured Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze and, most of all, the nervous Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.
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He would go on to study with both Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
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According to some historians, composer Dmitri Shostakovich was also a huge Zenit fan who attended games on a regular basis.
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He will be buried in Novo-Devichy Cemetery, which also holds the graves of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
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And when he went back to Russia for the first time in 1990, the first thing he did was go to visit the grave of Dmitri Shostakovich.
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"Seduced and Abandoned" takes on an elegiac tone of nostalgia complete with a booming score by the late Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich for the older, more daring days of the movie business.
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