Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

By Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Kirkman

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of the composer's working circumstances and of his response to them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409439372
• ISBN13: 9781409439370
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"