Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1970

by Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitry; Glikman Shostakovich, Isaak Glikman

After considerable hesitation and soul-searching I have decided to publish the letters Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich wrote to me. This choice by the composer's close friend Isaak Glikman brought the tormented feelings of the musical genius into public view. Now those feelings resound in the first substantial collection of Shostakovich's letters to appear in English.From the early 1930s until his death in 1975 Shostakovich wrote regularly to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801439795
• ISBN13: 9780801439797
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher