Editing Dmitri Shostakovich (section)

== Biography ==
=== Youth ===
[[File:Shostakovichbirthplaque.JPG|thumb|right|Birthplace of Shostakovich (now School No. 267). Commemorative plaque at left.]]Born into a Russian family that lived on Podolskaya Street in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian Empire, Shostakovich was the second of three children of Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich and Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina. Shostakovich's immediate forebears came from [[Siberia]],{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=7}} but his paternal grandfather, Bolesław Szostakowicz, was of [[Polish people|Polish]] Catholic descent, tracing his family roots to the region of the town of [[Vileyka]] in today's [[Belarus]]. A Polish revolutionary in the [[January uprising]] of 1863–64, Szostakowicz was exiled to [[Narym]] in 1866 in the crackdown that followed [[Dmitry Karakozov]]'s assassination attempt on [[Alexander II of Russia|Tsar Alexander II]].<ref name=Wilson2000_4>{{harvp|Wilson|2006|p=4}}.</ref> When his term of exile ended, Szostakowicz decided to remain in Siberia. He eventually became a successful banker in [[Irkutsk]] and raised a large family. His son Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich, the composer's father, was born in exile in Narym in 1875 and studied physics and mathematics at [[Saint Petersburg State University|Saint Petersburg University]], graduating in 1899. He then went to work as an engineer under [[Dmitri Mendeleev]] at the Bureau of Weights and Measures in Saint Petersburg. In 1903, he married another Siberian immigrant to the capital, Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina, one of six children born to a Siberian Russian.{{r|Wilson2000_4}}

Their son, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, displayed musical talent after he began piano lessons with his mother at the age of nine. On several occasions, he displayed a remarkable ability to remember what his mother had played at the previous lesson, and would get "caught in the act" of playing the previous lesson's music while pretending to read different music placed in front of him.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=9}} In 1918, he wrote a funeral march in memory of two leaders of the [[Constitutional Democratic Party|Kadet party]] murdered by [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]] sailors.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=12}}

In 1919, at age 13,{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=14}} Shostakovich was admitted to the [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory|Petrograd Conservatory]], then headed by [[Alexander Glazunov]], who monitored his progress closely and promoted him.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=17}} Shostakovich studied piano with [[Leonid Nikolayev (pianist)|Leonid Nikolayev]] and Elena Rozanova, composition with [[Maximilian Steinberg]], and [[counterpoint]] and [[fugue]] with [[Nikolay Sokolov (composer)|Nikolay Sokolov]], who became his friend.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=18}} He also attended [[Alexander Ossovsky]]'s music history classes.{{sfnp|Fairclough|Fanning|2008|p=73}} In 1925, he enrolled in the conducting classes of [[Nikolai Malko]],{{sfnp|Fay|2000|pp=29–30}} where he conducted the conservatory orchestra in a private performance of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven)|First Symphony]]. According to the recollections of the composer's classmate, {{ill|Valerian Bogdanov-Berezhovsky|ru|Богданов-Березовский, Валериан Михайлович}}:

<blockquote>Shostakovich stood at the podium, played with his hair and jacket cuffs, looked around at the hushed teenagers with instruments at the ready and raised the baton. ... He neither stopped the orchestra, nor made any remarks; he focused his entire attention on aspects of tempi and dynamics, which were very clearly displayed in his gestures. The contrasts between the "Adagio molto" of the introduction and "Allegro con brio" first theme were quite striking, as were those between the percussive accents of the chords (woodwinds, French horns, pizzicato strings) and the momentarily extended piano in the introduction following them. In the character given to the pattern of the first theme, I recall, there was both vigorous striving and lightness; in the bass part there was an emphasized pliancy of tenderly threaded articulation.{{nbsp}}... Moments of these sorts{{nbsp}}... were discoveries of an improvised order, born from an intuitively refined understanding of the character of a piece and the elements of musical imagery embedded in it. And the players enjoyed it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khentova |first=Sofia |title=Молодые годы Шостаковича, Книга 1|trans-title=The Young Years of Shostakovich, Book 1|publisher=Советский композитор [Soviet Composer]|year=1975 |location=Leningrad/Moscow |pages=111–112 |language=ru}}</ref></blockquote>

On 20 March 1925 Shostakovich's music was played in Moscow for the first time, in a program which also included works by his friend [[Vissarion Shebalin]]. To the composer's disappointment, the critics and public there received his music coolly. During his visit to Moscow, Mikhail Kvadri introduced him to [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]],{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=27}} who helped the composer find accommodation and work there, and sent a driver to take him to a concert in "a very stylish automobile".{{sfnp|McSmith|2015|p=171}}

Shostakovich's musical breakthrough was the [[Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)|First Symphony]], written as his graduation piece at the age of 19. Initially Shostakovich aspired to perform it only privately with the conservatory orchestra, and prepared to conduct the [[scherzo]] himself. By late 1925 Malko agreed to conduct its premiere with the [[Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra]] after Steinberg and Shostakovich's friend [[Boleslav Yavorsky]] brought the symphony to his attention.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=30}} On 12 May 1926, Malko led the premiere of the symphony; the audience received it enthusiastically, demanding an encore of the scherzo. Thereafter, Shostakovich regularly celebrated the date of his symphonic debut.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=32}}

=== Early career ===
[[File:Dmitrij Dmitrijevič Šostakovič (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич).jpg|thumb|upright|Shostakovich in 1925]]
After graduation, Shostakovich embarked on a dual career as concert pianist and composer, but his dry keyboard style was often criticized.{{sfnp|Moshevich|2004|p=14}} Shostakovich maintained a heavy performance schedule until 1930; after 1933 he performed only his own compositions.{{sfnp|Moshevich|2004|p=3}} Along with {{ill|Yuri Bryushkov|ru|Брюшков, Юрий Васильевич}}, [[Grigory Ginzburg]], [[Lev Oborin]], and Josif Shvarts, he was among the Soviet contestants in the inaugural [[I International Chopin Piano Competition]] in Warsaw in 1927. Bogdanov-Berezhovsky later remembered:

{{Blockquote|text= The self-discipline with which the young Shostakovich prepared for the 1927 [Chopin] Competition was astonishing. For three weeks, he locked himself away at home, practicing for hours at a time, having postponed his composing, and given up trips to the theatre and visits with friends. Even more startling was the result of this seclusion. Of course, prior to this time, he had played superbly and occasioned Glazunov's now famous glowing reports. But during those days, his pianism, sharply idiosyncratic and rhythmically impulsive, multi-timbered yet graphically defined, emerged in its concentrated form.{{sfnp|Moshevich|2004|pp=49–50}}}}

{{ill|Natan Perelman|ru|Перельман, Натан Ефимович}}, who heard Shostakovich play his Chopin programs before he went to Warsaw, said that his "anti-sentimental" playing, which eschewed [[rubato]] and extreme dynamic contrasts, was unlike anything he had ever heard. {{ill|Arnold Alschwang|ru|Альшванг, Арнольд Александрович}} called Shostakovich's playing "profound and lacking any salon-like mannerisms."{{sfnp|Moshevich|2004|pp=50–51}}

Shostakovich was stricken with [[appendicitis]] on the opening day of the competition, but his condition improved by the time of his first performance on 27 January 1927. (He had his appendix removed on 25 April.) According to Shostakovich, his playing found favor with the audience. He persisted into the final round of the competition but ultimately earned only a diploma, no prize; Oborin was declared the winner. Shostakovich was upset about the result but for a time resolved to continue a career as performer. While recovering from his appendectomy in April 1927, Shostakovich said he was beginning to reassess those plans:

{{Blockquote|text= When I was well, I practiced the piano every day. I wanted to carry on like that until autumn and then decide. If I saw that I had not improved, I would quit the whole business. To be a pianist who is worse than [[Stanisław Szpinalski|Szpinalski]], [[Róża Etkin-Moszkowska|Etkin]], Ginzburg, and Bryushkov (it is commonly thought that I am worse than them) is not worth it.{{sfnp|Moshevich|2004|p=52}}}}

After the competition, Shostakovich and Oborin spent a week in Berlin. There he met the conductor [[Bruno Walter]], who was so impressed by Shostakovich's First Symphony that he conducted its first performance outside Russia later that year. [[Leopold Stokowski]] led the American premiere the next year in Philadelphia and also made the work's first recording.{{sfnp|Hulme|2010|p=19}}{{sfnp|Hulme|2010|p=20}}

In 1927 Shostakovich wrote his [[Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Second Symphony]] (subtitled ''To October''), a patriotic piece with a pro-Soviet choral finale. Owing to its modernism, it did not meet with the same enthusiasm as his First.{{sfnp|Meyer|1995|p=143}} This year also marked the beginning of Shostakovich's close friendship with musicologist and theatre critic [[Ivan Sollertinsky]], whom he had first met in 1921 through their mutual friends [[Lev Arnshtam]] and Lydia Zhukova.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kovnatskaya|first=Liudmila Grigorievna|author-link=Liudmila Kovnatskaya|title=Шостакович в Ленинградской консерватории: 1919–1930|trans-title=Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory|date=2013|publisher=Композитор [Composer]|location=Saint Petersburg |isbn=9785737907228 |pages=72–79 |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shostakovich |first1=Dmitri |editor-last=Вульфсон|editor-first=А. В.|title=Письма И. И. Соллертинскому|trans-title=Letters to I. I. Sollertinsky|date=2006|publisher=Композитор [Composer]|location=Saint Petersburg |isbn=5737903044 |page=3 |language=ru}}</ref> Shostakovich later said that Sollertinsky "taught [him] to understand and love such great masters as [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]], and [[Anton Bruckner|Bruckner]]" and that he instilled in him "an interest in music ... from [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] to [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]]."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khentova|first1=Sofia|title=Шостакович. Жизнь и творчество, Т. 1.|trans-title=Shostakovich. Life and Work, vol. 1|date=1985 |publisher=Советский композитор [Soviet Composer]|location=Moscow |page=215 |language=ru}}</ref>

While writing the Second Symphony, Shostakovich also began work on his satirical opera ''[[The Nose (opera)|The Nose]]'', based on [[The Nose (Gogol short story)|the story]] by [[Nikolai Gogol]]. In June 1929, against the composer's wishes, the opera was given a concert performance; it was ferociously attacked by the [[Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians]] (RAPM).{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=84}} Its stage premiere on 18 January 1930 opened to generally poor reviews and widespread incomprehension among musicians.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=85}} In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Shostakovich worked at [[Workers' Youth Theatre|TRAM]], a [[proletariat|proletarian]] youth theatre. Although he did little work in this post, it shielded him from ideological attack. Much of this period was spent writing his opera ''[[Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk]]'', which was first performed in 1934. It was initially immediately successful, on both popular and official levels. It was described as "the result of the general success of Socialist construction, of the correct policy of the Party", and as an opera that "could have been written only by a Soviet composer brought up in the best tradition of Soviet culture".{{sfnp|Shostakovich/Grigoryev & Platek|1981|p=33}}

Shostakovich married his first wife, Nina Varzar, in 1932. Difficulties led to a divorce in 1935, but the couple soon remarried when Nina became pregnant with their first child, [[Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich|Galina]].{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=80}}

=== First denunciation ===
[[File:Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Production of ''[[Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk]]'' by [[Helikon Opera]] in 2014]]
On 17 January 1936 [[Joseph Stalin]] paid a rare visit to the opera for a performance of a new work, ''Quiet Flows the Don'', based on the novel by [[Mikhail Sholokhov]], by the little-known composer [[Ivan Dzerzhinsky]], who was called to Stalin's box at the end of the performance and told that his work had "considerable ideological-political value".{{sfnp|McSmith|2015|p=172}} On 26 January, Stalin revisited the opera, accompanied by [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], [[Andrei Zhdanov]] and [[Anastas Mikoyan]], to hear ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District''. He and his entourage left without speaking to anyone. Shostakovich had been forewarned by a friend that he should postpone a planned concert tour in [[Arkhangelsk]] to be present at that particular performance.<ref>{{cite news|first=Solomon |last=Volkov|author-link=Solomon Volkov|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3613515/When-opera-was-a-matter-of-life-or-death.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3613515/When-opera-was-a-matter-of-life-or-death.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=When opera was a matter of life or death |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=8 March 2004 |access-date=7 November 2011 |ref=none}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Eyewitness accounts testify that Shostakovich was "white as a sheet" when he went to take his bow after the third act.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006b|pp=128–129}}

The next day Shostakovich left for Arkhangelsk, where he heard on 28 January that ''[[Pravda]]'' had published an editorial titled "[[Muddle Instead of Music]]", complaining that the opera was a "deliberately dissonant, muddled stream of sounds ...[that] quacks, hoots, pants and gasps."{{sfnp|Fay|2000|pp=84–85}} Shostakovich continued his performance tour as scheduled, with no disruptions. From Arkhangelsk, he instructed [[Isaac Glikman]] to subscribe to a [[Media monitoring service|clipping service]].{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=87}} The editorial was the signal for a nationwide campaign, during which even Soviet music critics who had praised the opera were forced to recant in print, saying they "failed to detect the shortcomings of ''Lady Macbeth'' as pointed out by ''Pravda''".<ref>[[Olin Downes|Downes, Olin]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/12/archives/changes-in-the-soviet-shostakovich-affair-shows-shift-in-point-of.html "Shostakovich Affair shows shift in point of view in the U.S.S.R."], ''[[The New York Times]]''. 12 April 1936. p. X5.</ref> There was resistance from those who admired Shostakovich, including Sollertinsky, who turned up at a composers' meeting in Leningrad called to denounce the opera and praised it instead. Two other speakers supported him. When Shostakovich returned to Leningrad, he had a telephone call from the commander of the Leningrad Military District, who had been asked by Marshal [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]] to make sure that he was alright. When the writer [[Isaac Babel]] was under arrest four years later, he told his interrogators that "it was common ground for us to proclaim the genius of the slighted Shostakovich."{{sfnp|McSmith|2015|pp=175–176}}

On 6 February Shostakovich was again attacked in ''Pravda'', this time for his light comic ballet ''[[The Limpid Stream]]'', which was denounced because "it jangles and expresses nothing" and did not give an accurate picture of peasant life on a collective farm.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=130}} Fearful that he was about to be arrested, Shostakovich secured an appointment with the Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Culture, [[Platon Kerzhentsev]], who reported to Stalin and [[Vyacheslav Molotov|Molotov]] that he had instructed the composer to "reject formalist errors and in his art attain something that could be understood by the broad masses", and that Shostakovich had admitted being in the wrong and had asked for a meeting with Stalin, which was not granted.{{sfnp|McSmith|2015|pp=174–175}}

The ''Pravda'' campaign against Shostakovich caused his commissions and concert appearances, and performances of his music, to decline markedly. His monthly earnings dropped from an average of as much as 12,000 rubles to as little as 2,000.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=94}}

1936 marked the beginning of the [[Great Purge|Great Terror]], in which many of Shostakovich's friends and relatives were imprisoned or killed. These included Tukhachevsky, executed 12 June 1937; his brother-in-law [[Vsevolod Frederiks]], who was eventually released but died before he returned home; his close friend [[Nikolai Zhilyayev (musicologist)|Nikolai Zhilyayev]], a musicologist who had taught Tukhachevsky, was executed; his mother-in-law, the astronomer {{ill|Sofiya Mikhaylovna Varzar|ru|Варзар, Софья Михайловна}},{{sfnp|Fay|2000|pp=95–99}} who was sent to a camp in [[Karaganda]] and later released; his friend the Marxist writer [[Galina Serebryakova]], who spent 20 years in the [[gulag]]; his uncle Maxim Kostrykin (died); and his colleagues [[Boris Kornilov]] (executed) and [[Adrian Piotrovsky]] (executed).{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|pp=145–146}}

Shostakovich's daughter Galina was born during this period in 1936;<ref>{{cite book |last=Riley |first=John |date=2005 |title=Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4r8I9NUzKm8C&pg=PA32 |publisher=I. B. Tauris|page=32 |isbn=978-1-85043-484-9}}</ref> his son [[Maxim Shostakovich|Maxim]] was born two years later.<ref>{{cite news |last=Charles |first=Eleanor |date=3 February 1985 |title=Shostakovich Orchestra Role |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/03/nyregion/shostakovich-orchestra-role.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref>

'''Withdrawal of the Fourth Symphony'''
[[File:Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович.jpg|thumb|243x243px|Shostakovich before 1941]]
The publication of the ''Pravda'' editorials coincided with the composition of Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)|Fourth Symphony]]. The work continued a shift in his style, influenced by the music of [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]], and gave him problems as he attempted to reform his style. Despite the ''Pravda'' articles, he continued to compose the symphony and planned a premiere at the end of 1936. Rehearsals began that December, but according to Isaac Glikman, who had attended the rehearsals with the composer, the manager of the [[Leningrad Philharmonic]] persuaded Shostakovich to withdraw the symphony.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|pp=143–144}} Shostakovich did not repudiate the work and retained its designation as his Fourth Symphony. (A reduction for two pianos was performed and published in 1946,{{sfnp|Hulme|2010|p=167}} and the work was finally premiered in 1961.)<ref>{{cite news |last=Fay |first=Laurel E. |date=6 April 2003 |title=Music; Found: Shostakovich's Long-Lost Twin Brother |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/arts/music-found-shostakovich-s-long-lost-twin-brother.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref>

In the months between the withdrawal of the Fourth Symphony and the completion of the [[Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)|Fifth]] on 20 July 1937, the only concert work Shostakovich composed was the ''Four Romances on Texts by Pushkin''.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=98}}

'''Fifth Symphony and return to favor'''

The composer's response to his denunciation was the [[Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)|Fifth Symphony]] of 1937, which was musically more conservative than his recent works. Premiered on 21 November 1937 in Leningrad, it was a phenomenal success. The Fifth brought many to tears and welling emotions.{{sfnp|Volkov|2004|p=150}} Later, Shostakovich's purported memoir, ''[[Testimony (Volkov book)|Testimony]]'', stated: "I'll never believe that a man who understood nothing could feel the Fifth Symphony. Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth was about."{{sfnp|Shostakovich/Volkov|2000|p=135}}

The success put Shostakovich in good standing once again. Music critics and the authorities alike, including those who had earlier accused him of formalism, claimed that he had learned from his mistakes and become a true Soviet artist. In a newspaper article published under Shostakovich's name, the Fifth was characterized as "A Soviet artist's creative response to just criticism."{{sfnp|Taruskin|2009|p=304}} The composer [[Dmitry Kabalevsky]], who had been among those who disassociated themselves from Shostakovich when the ''Pravda'' article was published, praised the Fifth and congratulated Shostakovich for "not having given in to the seductive temptations of his previous 'erroneous' ways."{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=152}}

It was also at this time that Shostakovich composed the [[String Quartet No. 1 (Shostakovich)|first]] of his [[string quartet]]s. In September 1937, he began to teach composition at the [[Leningrad Conservatory]], which provided some financial security.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=97}}

=== Second World War ===
In 1939, before [[Winter War|Soviet forces attempted to invade Finland]], the Party Secretary of Leningrad [[Andrei Zhdanov]] commissioned a celebratory piece from Shostakovich, the ''[[Suite on Finnish Themes]]'', to be performed as the marching bands of the [[Red Army]] paraded through Helsinki. The [[Winter War]] was a bitter experience for the Red Army, the parade never happened, and Shostakovich never laid claim to the authorship of this work.{{sfnp|Edwards|2006|p=98}} It was not performed until 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 September 2001 |title=Shostakovitshin kiistelty teos kantaesitettiin |trans-title=Controversial work by Shostakovich premiered |url=http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/arkisto.shtml/arkistot/kulttuuri/2001/09/78462 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011195008/http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/arkisto.shtml/arkistot/kulttuuri/2001/09/78462 |archive-date=11 October 2009 |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=MTV3.fi |language=fi}}</ref> After the outbreak of [[Eastern Front (World War II)|war between the Soviet Union and Germany]] in 1941, Shostakovich initially remained in Leningrad. He tried to enlist in the military but was turned away because of his poor eyesight. To compensate, he became a volunteer for the Leningrad Conservatory's firefighter brigade and delivered a radio broadcast to the Soviet people. ''{{Audio|ShostakovichRadio1941.ogg|listen}}'' The photograph for which he posed was published in newspapers throughout the country.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=171}}

Shostakovich's most famous wartime contribution was his [[Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)|Seventh Symphony]]. The composer wrote the first three movements in [[Siege of Leningrad|Leningrad while it was under siege]]; he completed the work in Kuybyshev (now [[Samara]]), where he and his family had been evacuated.{{sfnp|Brown|2020|p=286}} According to a radio address he made on 17 September 1941, he continued work on the symphony to show his fellow citizens that everyone had a "soldier's duty" to ensure life went on. In another article written on 8 October, he wrote that the Seventh was a "symphony about our age, our people, our sacred war, and our victory."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shostakovich |first=Dmitri |title=Dmitry Shostakovich: About Himself and His Times |publisher=Progress Publishers |year=1981 |location=Moscow |pages=89–90}}</ref> Shostakovich finished his Seventh Symphony on 27 December 1941.{{sfnp|Brown|2020|p=221}} The symphony was premiered by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in Kuibyshev on 29 March 1942 and soon performed in London (June 1942) and the United States (July 1942),{{sfnp|Brown|2020|p=215}} where several conductors vied to conduct its [[American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7|first American performance]].{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=132}} It was [[Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7|performed in Leningrad in August 1942, while the city was still under siege]]. The city's orchestra had only 14 musicians left, which led conductor [[Karl Eliasberg]] to reinforce it by recruiting anyone who could play an instrument.{{sfnp|Blokker|1979|p=30}}

The Shostakovich family moved to Moscow in spring 1943, by which time the [[Red Army]] was on the offensive. As a result Soviet authorities and the international public were puzzled by the tragic tone of the [[Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)|Eighth Symphony]], which in the Western press had briefly acquired the nickname "[[Battle of Stalingrad|Stalingrad]] Symphony". The symphony was received tepidly in the Soviet Union and the West. [[Olin Downes]] expressed his disappointment in the piece, but [[Carlos Chávez]], who had conducted the symphony's Mexican premiere, praised it highly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khentova|first=Sofia|title=Шостакович. Жизнь и творчество, Т. 2|trans-title=Shostakovich. Life and Work, vol. 2|publisher=Советский композитор [Soviet Composer]|year=1986 |location=Moscow |page=193 |language=ru}}</ref>

Shostakovich had expressed as early as 1943 his intention to cap his wartime trilogy of symphonies with a grandiose Ninth. On 16 January 1945, he announced to his students that he had begun work on its first movement the day before. In April, his friend [[Isaac Glikman]] heard an extensive portion of the first movement, noting that it was "majestic in scale, in pathos, in its breathtaking motion".{{sfn|Fay|2000|p=146}} Shortly thereafter, Shostakovich ceased work on this version of the Ninth, which remained lost until musicologist Olga Digonskaya rediscovered it in December 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Digonskaya |first=Ol'ga |date=2009 |title=About this Recording: 8.572138 – Shostakovich, D.: Girl Friends / Rule, Britannia / Salute to Spain (Polish Radio Symphony, Fitz-Gerald) |url=https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.572138&catNum=572138&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427035344/https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.572138&catNum=572138&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English |archive-date=27 April 2022 |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=[[Naxos Records]]}}</ref> Shostakovich began to compose his actual, unrelated [[Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich)|Ninth Symphony]] in late July 1945; he completed it on 30 August. It was shorter and lighter in texture than its predecessors. [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov]] wrote that it was "splendid in its joie de vivre, gaiety, brilliance, and pungency!"{{sfnp|Fay|2000|pp=146–147}} By 1946 it was the subject of official criticism. Israel Nestyev asked whether it was the right time for "a light and amusing interlude between Shostakovich's significant creations, a temporary rejection of great, serious problems for the sake of playful, filigree-trimmed trifles."{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=152}} The ''[[New York World-Telegram]]'' of 27 July 1946 was similarly dismissive: "The Russian composer should not have expressed his feelings about the defeat of Nazism in such a childish manner". Shostakovich continued to compose chamber music, notably his [[Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Second Piano Trio]], dedicated to the memory of Sollertinsky, with a Jewish-inspired finale.

In 1947 Shostakovich was made a deputy to the [[Supreme Soviet of Russia|Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR]].{{sfnp|Hulme|2010|p=xxiv}}

=== Second denunciation ===
In 1948 Shostakovich, along with many other composers, was again denounced for [[Formalism (music)|formalism]] in the [[Zhdanov Doctrine|Zhdanov decree]]. Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the [[Supreme Soviet of Russia|Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR]], accused the composers (including [[Sergei Prokofiev]] and [[Aram Khachaturian]]) of writing inappropriate and formalist music. This was part of an ongoing anti-formalism campaign intended to root out all Western compositional influence as well as any perceived "non-Russian" output. The conference resulted in the publication of the Central Committee's Decree "On V. Muradeli's opera ''[[The Great Friendship]]''", which targeted all Soviet composers and demanded that they write only "proletarian" music, or music for the masses. The accused composers, including Shostakovich, were summoned to make public apologies in front of the committee.{{sfnmp|Blokker|1979|1pp=33–34|Wilson|2006|2p=241}} Most of Shostakovich's works were banned, and his family had privileges withdrawn. [[Yuri Lyubimov]] says that at this time "he waited for his arrest at night out on the landing by the lift, so that at least his family wouldn't be disturbed."{{sfnp|Wilson|1994|p=183}}

The decree's consequences for composers were harsh. Shostakovich was among those dismissed from the Conservatory altogether. For him, the loss of money was perhaps the heaviest blow. Others still in the Conservatory experienced an atmosphere thick with suspicion. No one wanted his work to be understood as formalist, so many resorted to accusing their colleagues of writing or performing anti-proletarian music.{{sfnp|Wilson|1994|p=252}}

During the next few years Shostakovich composed three categories of work: film music to pay the rent, official works aimed at securing official [[rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitation]], and serious works "for the desk drawer". The last included the [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)|Violin Concerto No. 1]] and the [[song cycle]] ''[[From Jewish Folk Poetry]]''. The cycle was written at a time when the postwar [[Antisemitism in the Soviet Union|anti-Semitic]] campaign was already under way, with widespread arrests, including that of Dobrushin and Yiditsky, the compilers of the book from which Shostakovich took his texts.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=269}}

The restrictions on Shostakovich's music and living arrangements were eased in 1949, when Stalin decided that the Soviets needed to send artistic representatives to the Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace in New York City, and that Shostakovich should be among them. For Shostakovich it was a humiliating experience, culminating in a New York press conference where he was expected to read a prepared speech. [[Nicolas Nabokov]], who was present in the audience, witnessed Shostakovich starting to read "in a nervous and shaky voice" before he had to break off "and the speech was continued in English by a suave radio baritone".{{sfnp|Nabokov|1951|p=204}} Fully aware that Shostakovich was not free to speak his mind, Nabokov publicly asked him whether he supported the then recent denunciation of [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s music in the Soviet Union. A great admirer of Stravinsky who had been influenced by his music, Shostakovich had no alternative but to answer in the affirmative. Nabokov did not hesitate to write that this demonstrated that Shostakovich was "not a free man, but an obedient tool of his government."{{sfnp|Nabokov|1951|p=205}} Shostakovich never forgave Nabokov for this public humiliation.{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=274}} That same year, he composed the [[cantata]] ''[[Song of the Forests]]'', which praised Stalin as the "great gardener".<ref>{{cite book |last=Knight |first=David B. |date=2006 |title=Landscapes in Music: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jVYdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|page=84 |isbn=978-1-4616-3859-9}}</ref>
[[File:Дмитрий Шостакович за роялем.jpg|thumb|Shostakovich playing the piano in the 1950s]]
Stalin's death in 1953 was the biggest step toward Shostakovich's rehabilitation as a creative artist, which was marked by his [[Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)|Tenth Symphony]]. It features a number of [[musical quotation]]s and codes (notably the [[DSCH motif|DSCH]] and Elmira motifs, Elmira Nazirova being a pianist and composer who had studied under Shostakovich in the year before his dismissal from the Moscow Conservatory),{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=304}} the meaning of which is still debated, while the savage second movement, according to ''[[Testimony (Volkov book)|Testimony]]'', is intended as a musical portrait of Stalin. The Tenth ranks alongside the Fifth and Seventh as one of Shostakovich's most popular works. 1953 also saw a stream of premieres of the "desk drawer" works.

During the 1940s and 1950s Shostakovich had close relationships with two of his pupils, [[Galina Ustvolskaya]] and Elmira Nazirova. In the background to all this remained Shostakovich's first, open marriage to Nina Varzar until her death in 1954. He taught Ustvolskaya from 1939 to 1941 and then from 1947 to 1948. The nature of their relationship is far from clear: [[Mstislav Rostropovich]] described it as "tender". Ustvolskaya rejected a proposal of marriage from him after Nina's death.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=194}} Shostakovich's daughter, Galina, recalled her father consulting her and Maxim about the possibility of Ustvolskaya becoming their stepmother.{{sfnp|Fay|2000|p=194}}{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=297}} Ustvolskaya's friend Viktor Suslin said that she had been "deeply disappointed by [Shostakovich's] conspicuous silence" when her music faced criticism after her graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Derks|first1=Thea|author1-link=:li:Thea Derks|last2=Ustvolskaya|first2=Galina|author2-link=Galina Ustvolskaya|title=Galina Ustvolskaya: 'Sind Sie mir nicht böse!' (very nearly an interview)|journal=[[Tempo (journal)|Tempo]]|series=New Series|date=July 1995|issue=193|pages=31–33 (32)|doi=10.1017/S0040298200004290 |jstor=945561|s2cid=143681367 }}</ref> The relationship with Nazirova seems to have been one-sided, expressed largely in his letters to her, and can be dated to around 1953 to 1956. He married his second wife, [[Komsomol]] activist Margarita Kainova, in 1956; the couple proved ill-matched, and divorced five years later.{{sfnp|Meyer|1995|p=392}}

In 1954 Shostakovich wrote the [[Festive Overture (Shostakovich)|Festive Overture, opus 96]]; it was used as the theme music for the [[1980 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1980 Summer Olympics Official Report from the Organizing Committee, vol. 2 |page=283 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060622162855/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm |archive-date=22 June 2006}}</ref> (His "Theme from the film ''[[Pirogov (film)|Pirogov]]'', Opus 76a: Finale" was played as the cauldron was lit at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, Greece.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrxhcAbJrQI |title=Lighting of the Cauldron {{!}} Athens 2004 |website=YouTube |access-date=17 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://olympicceremonies.wordpress.com/2004-athens-opening-ceremony-music-list/ |title=2004 Athens Opening Ceremony Music List |date=30 August 2008 |access-date=17 April 2020}}</ref>

In 1959 Shostakovich appeared on stage in Moscow at the end of a concert performance of his Fifth Symphony, congratulating [[Leonard Bernstein]] and the [[New York Philharmonic|New York Philharmonic Orchestra]] for their performance (part of a concert tour of the Soviet Union). Later that year, Bernstein and the Philharmonic recorded the symphony in Boston for [[Columbia Records]].<ref>{{OCLC|1114176116}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=North |first=James H. |date=2006 |title=New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917–2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0ayG9YhQAQC&pg=PA117 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=117 |isbn=978-0-8108-6239-5}}</ref>

=== Joining the Party ===
1960 marked another turning point in Shostakovich's life: he joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]]. The government wanted to appoint him Chairman of the RSFSR Union of Composers, but to hold that position he was required to obtain Party membership. It was understood that [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1964, was looking for support from the intelligentsia's leading ranks in an effort to create a better relationship with the Soviet Union's artists.{{sfnp|Wilson|1994|pp=373–380}} This event has variously been interpreted as a show of commitment, a mark of cowardice, the result of political pressure, and his free decision. On the one hand, the [[Apparatchik|apparat]] was less repressive than it had been before Stalin's death. On the other, his son recalled that the event reduced Shostakovich to tears,{{sfnp|Ho|Feofanov|1998|p=398}} and that he later told his wife Irina that he had been blackmailed.<ref>Manashir Yakubov, Programme notes for the 1998 Shostakovich seasons at the [[Barbican Centre|Barbican]], London.</ref> [[Lev Lebedinsky]] has said that the composer was suicidal.{{sfnp|Wilson|1994|p=340}} In 1960, he was appointed Chairman of the RSFSR Union of Composers;<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 May 1968 |title=Russ Replace Shostakovich as Union Head |work=[[Star Tribune|Minneapolis Star]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346185/the-minneapolis-star/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521174744/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346185/the-minneapolis-star/ |archive-date=21 May 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=18 May 1968 |title=Shostakovich Out; Sviridov Gets His Job |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |agency=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102272307/chicago-tribune/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521174939/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102272307/chicago-tribune/ |archive-date=21 May 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> from 1962 until his death, he also served as a delegate in the [[Supreme Soviet of the USSR]].{{sfnp|Hulme|2010|p=xxvii}} By joining the party, Shostakovich also committed himself to finally writing the homage to Lenin that he had promised before. His [[Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)|Twelfth Symphony]], which portrays the [[Bolshevik Revolution]] and was completed in 1961, was dedicated to Lenin and called "The Year 1917".

[[File:Fotothek df roe-neg 0002796 004 Portrait Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitchs im Publikum der Bachfeier.jpg|thumb|upright|Shostakovich in 1950]]

Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the [[String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)|Eighth String Quartet]], composed in only three days. He subtitled the piece "To the victims of fascism and war",{{sfnp|Blokker|1979|p=37}} ostensibly in memory of the [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II|Dresden fire bombing]] that took place in 1945. Yet like the Tenth Symphony, the quartet incorporates [[Musical quotation|quotations]] from several of his past works and [[DSCH motif|his musical monogram]]. Shostakovich confessed to his friend Isaac Glikman, "I started thinking that if some day I die, nobody is likely to write a work in memory of me, so I had better write one myself."<ref>Letter dated 19 July 1960, reprinted in {{harvp|Shostakovich|Glikman|2001|pp=90–91}}.</ref> Several of Shostakovich's colleagues, including Natalya Vovsi-Mikhoels{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=263}} and the cellist [[Valentin Berlinsky]],{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|p=281}} were also aware of the Eighth Quartet's biographical intent. Peter J. Rabinowitz has also pointed to covert references to Richard Strauss's ''[[Metamorphosen]]'' in it.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rabinowitz |first1=Peter J. |title=The Rhetoric of Reference; or, Shostakovich's Ghost Quartet |journal=Narrative |date=May 2007 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=239–256 |jstor=30219253 |url=https://www.academia.edu/630315 |access-date=5 December 2017|doi=10.1353/nar.2007.0013 |s2cid=170436624}}</ref>

In 1962 Shostakovich married for the third time, to Irina Supinskaya. In a letter to Glikman he wrote: "her only defect is that she is 27 years old. In all other respects she is splendid: clever, cheerful, straightforward and very likeable."{{sfnp|Shostakovich|Glikman|2001|p=102}} According to [[Galina Vishnevskaya]], who knew the Shostakoviches well, this marriage was a very happy one: "It was with her that Dmitri Dmitriyevich finally came to know domestic peace... Surely, she prolonged his life by several years."{{sfnp|Vishnevskaya|1985|p=274}} In November, he conducted publicly for the only time in his life, leading a couple of his own works in [[Nizhny Novgorod|Gorky]];{{sfnp|Wilson|2006|pp=426–427}} otherwise he declined to conduct, citing nerves and ill health.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shostakovich |first=Dmitri |date=January 2024 |editor-last=Rowell |editor-first=Bryan |title=Shostakovich in America: Three Interviews |journal=DSCH Journal |issue=60 |pages=25}}</ref>

That year saw Shostakovich again turn to the subject of anti-Semitism in his [[Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)|Thirteenth Symphony]] (subtitled ''[[Babi Yar]]''). The symphony sets a number of poems by [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]], the first of which commemorates a massacre of Ukrainian Jews during the Second World War. Opinions are divided as to how great a risk this was: the poem had been published in Soviet media and was not banned, but it remained controversial. After the symphony's premiere, Yevtushenko was forced to add a stanza to his poem that said that Russians and Ukrainians had died alongside the Jews at Babi Yar.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheldon |first=Richard |date=25 August 1985 |title=Neither Yevtushenko Nor Shostakovich Should Be Blamed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/25/opinion/l-neither-yevtushenko-nor-shostakovich-should-be-blamed-213537.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |access-date=27 November 2019}}</ref>

In 1965 Shostakovich raised his voice in defence of poet [[Joseph Brodsky]], who was sentenced to five years of exile and hard labor. Shostakovich co-signed protests with Yevtushenko, fellow Soviet artists [[Kornei Chukovsky]], [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[Samuil Marshak]], and the French philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. After the protests, the sentence was commuted, and Brodsky returned to Leningrad.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Crump|first=Thomas|title=Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-1-315-88378-6|location=New York|page=107}}</ref>

=== Later life ===
In 1964 Shostakovich composed the music for the Russian film ''[[Hamlet (1964 film)|Hamlet]]'', which was favorably reviewed by ''[[The New York Times]]'': "But the lack of this aural stimulation—of Shakespeare's eloquent words—is recompensed in some measure by a splendid and stirring musical score by Dmitri Shostakovich. This has great dignity and depth, and at times an appropriate wildness or becoming levity".<ref>[[Bosley Crowther|Crowther, Bosley]], in ''[[The New York Times]]'', 15 September 1964.{{full citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=Article title? Page?}}</ref>

In later life Shostakovich suffered from chronic ill health, but he resisted giving up cigarettes and vodka.<ref name="Hektoen"/> Beginning in 1958, he suffered from a debilitating condition that particularly affected his right hand, eventually forcing him to give up piano playing; in 1965, it was diagnosed as [[poliomyelitis]], but consensus on his diagnosis is unclear.<ref name="Hektoen">{{cite web |title=Shostakovich and his mysterious neurologic disease – Hektoen International |url=https://hekint.org/2019/08/23/shostakovich-and-his-mysterious-neurologic-disease/ |website=Hektoen Internsational: A Journal of Medical Humanities |date=23 August 2019 |publisher=Hektoen Institute of Medicine |access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref> He also suffered heart attacks in 1966,<ref>{{cite news |title=Shostakovich Has Heart Attack After Performing in Leningrad |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/05/31/archives/shostakovich-has-heart-attack-after-performing-in-leningrad.html |access-date=3 July 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=31 May 1966}}</ref>1970,<ref name="Hektoen"/> and 1971,<ref name="Hektoen"/> as well as several falls in which he broke both his legs;<ref name="Hektoen"/> in 1967 he wrote in a letter: "Target achieved so far: 75% (right leg broken, left leg broken, right hand defective). All I need to do now is wreck the left hand and then 100% of my extremities will be out of order."{{sfnp|Shostakovich|Glikman|2001|p=147}}

A preoccupation with his own mortality permeates Shostakovich's later works, such as the later quartets and the [[Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)|Fourteenth Symphony]] of 1969 (a song cycle based on a number of poems on the theme of death). He dedicated the Fourteenth to his close friend [[Benjamin Britten]], who conducted its Western premiere at the 1970 [[Aldeburgh Festival]]. The [[Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)|Fifteenth Symphony]] of 1971 is, by contrast, melodic and retrospective in nature, quoting [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]] and the composer's own Fourth Symphony.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Service|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Service|date=23 September 2013|title=Symphony guide: Shostakovich's 15th|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2013/sep/23/symphony-guide-shostakovich-15-tom-service|access-date=8 May 2020}}</ref>

=== Death ===
[[File:Shostakovich.jpg|thumb|upright|Shostakovich voting in the election of the Council of Administration of Soviet Musicians in Moscow in 1974 (photograph by [[Yuri Shcherbinin]])]]
Beginning in 1958, Shostakovich experienced a decline in his motor functions. He was diagnosed with a rare form of [[poliomyelitis]], although according to his son, [[Maxim Shostakovich|Maxim]], he was informed that it was [[motor neurone disease]].{{sfn|Fairclough|2019|pp=112–113}} Nevertheless, Shostakovich insisted upon writing all his own correspondence and music, even when his right hand became virtually unusable. His last work was his [[Viola Sonata (Shostakovich)|Viola Sonata]], which was first performed officially on 1 October 1975.{{sfn|Hulme|2010|p=558}}

Shostakovich, a smoker since his youth, was forced to give up the habit after having his first heart attack in 1966.{{sfn|Fay|2000|pp=251–252}} He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1973.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rowell |first=Bryan |date=January 2024 |title=Fifty Years Ago: October 1973 – March 1974 (Illness, Fourteenth Quartet, Six Songs on Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Six Romances on Verses by British Poets) |journal=DSCH Journal |issue=60 |pages=41 |quote=The diagnosis of another one of Shostakovich's diseases was confirmed. In addition to poliomyelitis, he had cancer of the left lung.}}</ref> His death is variously attributed to lung cancer or heart failure.<ref name="RightNotes">{{cite web |title=The Right Notes Shostakovich and Stalin |url=https://www.therightnotes.org/shostakovich-and-stalin.html |website=www.therightnotes.org |access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="MahlerFoundation">{{cite web |title=Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) |url=https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/dmitri-shostakovich/ |website=Mahler Foundation |access-date=5 May 2023 |date=6 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hektoen"/>

Shostakovich died on 9 August 1975 at the [[Moscow Central Clinical Hospital|Central Clinical Hospital]] in Moscow. A civic funeral was held; he was interred in [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], Moscow.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/11/archives/dmitri-shostakovich-dead-at-68-after-hospitalization-in-moscow.html|title=Dmitri Shostakovich Dead at 68 After Hospitalization in Moscow|date=11 August 1975|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Legacy ===
Shostakovich left behind several recordings of his own piano works; other noted interpreters of his music include [[Mstislav Rostropovich]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|title=Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/arts/28rostropovich.html |access-date=21 May 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 April 2007}}</ref> [[Tatiana Nikolayeva]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Oestreich|first=James R.|author-link=James R. Oestreich|title=Tatyana Nikolayeva, 69, Dead; Pianist and Shostakovich Expert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/24/obituaries/tatyana-nikolayeva-69-dead-pianist-and-shostakovich-expert.html |access-date=21 May 2022|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=24 November 1993}}</ref> [[Maria Yudina]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yudina, Maria (1899–1970) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yudina-maria-1899-1970 |access-date=3 February 2023 |website=www.encyclopedia.com |language=en}}</ref> [[David Oistrakh]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clements |first1=Andrew |title=Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2 CD review – technically perfect |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/25/christian-tetzlaff-shostakovich-violin-concertos-nos-1-and-2-cd-review |access-date=21 May 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]]|date=25 September 2014 |quote=...Oistrakh’s recordings remain the benchmark against which all others have to be measured.}}</ref> and members of the [[Beethoven Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Квартет им. Бетховена исполняет квартеты Бетховена (8 CD)|url=https://melody.su/en/catalog/classic/41751/|access-date=2 February 2021|website=Firma Melodiya|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Margolis |first1=Sasha |title=The Beethoven Quartet's Unique Relationship with Shostakovich |url=https://stringsmagazine.com/the-beethoven-quartets-unique-relationship-with-shostakovich/ |website=Strings |access-date=21 May 2022 |date=23 October 2020}}</ref>

Shostakovich's influence on later composers outside the former Soviet Union has been relatively slight. His influence can be seen in some Nordic composers, such as [[Lars-Erik Larsson]].<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Aug03/Larsson_concertinos.htm Lars-Erik Larsson.] Musicweb International. Retrieved 18 November 2005.</ref>

The [[Shostakovich Peninsula]] on [[Alexander Island]], Antarctica, is named for him.<ref>[https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:0::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:13773 Shostakovich Peninsula] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813175041/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:0::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:13773 |date=13 August 2018 }} [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]]. 1 January 1975</ref>