Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

Brian Moynahan

558 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history music emotional reflective slow-paced
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Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of ...

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