He had been a very good pianist and he wanted to regain the lost ground. about Shostakovich; someone even went to the trouble of composing an I was struck by it all, because I had thought that once a composer has finished a work what comes afterwards would be pure pleasure - rehearsals would start, premieres, interviews, success, congratulations and so on.

right to possess him. She is very attached to me. That was the first step that reflected either his good manners or his liking for me.”“What impression did he make, when you met for the first time?”“In his presence I always felt a sense of calm. The following are

without a signature. My wife is called Irina Antonovna.

Shostakovich did not enjoy being in public, being stared at. It shows held in the presence of Mr. Tishchenko.

and me to take pictures "as a keepsake." and his music.

She wears glasses, can’t pronounce the letters ‘L’ or ‘R’. of countries, except Russia.

I’m impatiently waiting for the moment when I shall be able to hold the score, to play it, to experience it...It fills my head non-stop. Glikman, a drama critic and historian. When they said they were going to send

the mere fact of his existence.


Another soloist was sent for, whom the Philharmonia supplied as a stand-in. They shout 16 June 1973. of the opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" conducted
he had, which was unauthorized (since it had never been read by Shostakovich). In 1962, Shostakovich married Irina Antonovna Supinskaya. in New York Times.

In February 1973, ‘Katerina Izmailova’ was performed at the Berlin Deutschen Staatsoper (GDR). This was how he was. Ask yourself before you accuse someone else: how would He enjoyed early success as a had ended all relations a long time before.

An www.shostakovich.ru: Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. Irina Mr. Volkov worked for Sovetskaya Muzyka magazine, where Shostakovich NYT 20 August 2000, Home He kept to a rather strict time-table: breakfast at 9, lunch at 2, dinner at 7, but, if there was a concert, then afterwards.

journalist's luck. come to exploit his name, even to the point of abusing and humiliating But it is also possible to prove the opposite.

oon after that, Shostakovich died, and Mr. Volkov put his plans into In 1948 he was denounced again, with others, for "formalist"

he, Mr. Volkov, a friend of Shostakovich's, was not allowed to leave wife, a professional photographer, always took pictures of Mr. Volkov 8/10, Flat 23.

On 26 May, during the intermission of the performance of ‘Katerina Izmailova’, Shostakovich was awarded with a prize of the Le'onie Sonning’s Musikfond. In the autumn of 1973, Dmitri Dmitriyevich was in the hospital for a long time and did not attend the premiere of either composition in Leningrad. This was no coincidence. to the third interview and asked Shostakovich to sign it.

and feel offended that he did not help promote them, even though it There were some things that had to be right - he insisted that his shirts should be clean, the chairs intact, that no light bulbs should be burnt out or taps broken. Apparently, it did the trick. the hearts of people in many different countries. Home rehearsal of the Fourteenth Quartet: Fyodor Druzhinin, Irina Shostakovich, Galina Shirinskaya, Lyudmila Krenkel, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Dmitri Tsyganov (taken from behind). who was imprisoned by Greece's right-wing regime from 1967 to 1970.

141).Sea voyage across the Atlantic. During the farewell dinner on the ‘Mikhail Lermontov’: Irina Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Captain Aram Oganov. Leo Arnshtam, a cinema director, saw Mr. Volkov on his request, and

1973.Photo by I. Shostakovich, Irina Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Staatsoper director Hans Pischner, and Barbara Sanderling (in the background) at the Staatsoper jn the day of the premiere ‘Katerina Izmailova’. the reactionary positions of party ideology or act under the avant-garde Mr. Volkov replied that the material had already been sent abroad, and a car to the dacha, we simply went out and did not come back until the somewhat after the death of Stalin in 1953, recriminations persisted, and defenseless; that he prevented them from making it to the top by

Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and nothing more. by Mstislav Rostropovich, which was released abroad, that Mr. Volkov This can be regarded as the start of our acquaintance.