Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 - 1975Biography
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist. He achieved fame in the Soviet Union, although later developed a more complex and difficult relationship with the government. As a composer, he combined a variety of different musical techniques into his works, and his music is characterised by sharp contrast, grotesque elements, and ambivalent tonality.
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Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| Black eyes Op. 100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Broshennyi otets, 'An abandoned father' (1948) Op. 79 no.6 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Burja (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Dzhenni, 'Jenny' (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Farewell, Granada Op.100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin (1936) Op. 46 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Four Songs to Words by Evgeny Dolmatovsky (1951) Op. 86 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| From Jewish Folk Poetry (1948) Op. 79 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Gamajun ptica veshchaja (1967) Op.127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Gorod spit (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Ispanskije Pesni, 'Spanish Songs' (1956) Op. 100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Iunoshu, gor’ko rydaia, 'A youth and a maiden' (1936) Op. 46 no.2 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Khoroshaja zhizn, 'The good life' (1948) Op. 79 no.9 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Kolybel’naya, 'Lullaby' (1948) Op. 79 no.3 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Korolevskij pokhod, 'The King's Campaign' (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Kritiku, 'To a critic' (1960) Op. 109 no.1 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Makferson pered kazn'ju, 'Macpherson's Farewell' (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Moi stikhi, 'To my verses' (1973) Op. 143 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Muzyka (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| My byli vmeste (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Pesnja o nuzhde, 'Song of want' (1948) Op. 79 no.7 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Pesnja Ofelii (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Predchuvstvie, 'Foreboding' (1936) Op. 46 no.3 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Rodina slyshit, 'The motherland hears' (1951) Op. 86 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Romance (from The Gadfly) (1955) Op. 97 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Round dance Op.100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Satirï, 'Satires' (1960) Op. 109 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, 'Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva' (1973) Op. 143 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Six Romances on Verses by English Poets (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Son, 'Dream' (1956) Op. 100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Sonet LXVI, 'Sonnet 66' (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Spanish Songs Op. 100 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Stantsy, 'Stanzas' (1936) Op. 46 no.4 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Tajnyje znaki (1967) Op. 127 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| The Gadfly (1955) Op. 97 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| V poljakh pod snegom i dozhdjom, 'O, wert thou in the cauld blast' (1942) Op. 62 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Vozrozhdenie, 'Rebirth' (1936) Op. 46 no.1 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
