(PDF)->Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad Writen - M.T. Anderson

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

By : M.T. Anderson

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A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler?s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history?almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943?1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and?eventually?one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his

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Author : M.T. Anderson

Pages : 464 pages

Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0763691003

ISBN-13 : 9780763691004

 
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