Story Of A Friendship: The Letters Of Dmitry Shostakovich To Isaak Glikman, 19411975-used Saint-Exup And The Momentous Events Of

And The Momentous Events Of Political And Social History

Above All The Mass Eviction Of Destitute Peasants From Their Homes And Lands

Treating The Subject Thematically

It Is About The Clash Of The Modern And Traditional

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Story Of A Friendship: The Letters Of Dmitry Shostakovich To Isaak Glikman, 19411975-used Saint-Exup And The Momentous Events OfAfter Considerable Hesitation And Soulsearching 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