In 1943, young Rostropovich entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Dmitri Shostakovich.
In the Shostakovich, for example, there are a few difficult passages, but I can learn it quickly.
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He favoured Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze and, most of all, the nervous Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.
It was virtually a career-ending sentence which Shostakovich only averted by a painful adjustment of his style.
With the Shostakovich trilogy, I will try to make a portrait of the company in three different ballets.
Rehearsing the first movement of the Shostakovich, Sir Mark was determined that the players should plumb the musical depths.
He would go on to study with both Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
According to some historians, composer Dmitri Shostakovich was also a huge Zenit fan who attended games on a regular basis.
The two fell out when Ms Hochhauser rejected Mr Gergiev's commercially unsafe choice of an all-Shostakovich programme for the ROH.
He will be buried in Novo-Devichy Cemetery, which also holds the graves of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
Take, for example, Story of a Friendship, the letters of the great Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich (pictured in the photo at top) to Isaak Glikman.
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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.
And I think one of the things Slava used to say he would say that I went to three universities - the universities of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Britten.
But I love playing it with my own interpretation, based on my education, just as some great jazz players have taken on the challenge of playing Bach or Shostakovich.
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New York hip-hop artist Pete Miser composes his tunes out of thousands of digital snippets of music, from Shostakovich to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Glikman, a theater critic and historian (and eventually an advisor on film projects), was a devoted friend, serving as amanuensis for articles Shostakovich was obliged to write, always eager to convey scores or recordings for the composer, and sharing his taste in literature and music.
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