Schostakowitsch und die beiden Avantgarden des 20. Jahrhunderts

Dmitri Shostakovich was twice subjected to Stalin's whip and was twice banned from using avant-garde compositional methods and from contact with Western composers. "Formalism" and "cosmopolitanism" were the accusations leveled against Soviet artists in 1936 and 1948. How Shostakovich reacted to this, with adaptation or with inner emigration, was long disputed. The German Shostakovich Society, which brought together musicians, musicologists and music lovers from East and West after the collapse of Soviet power, has dedicated 18 symposia to researching the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. This volume collects the research results of the last two conferences, which deal with the relationship between Shostakovich and the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Under the magnifying glass, the compositions often reveal astonishing secrets. Vladimir Gurewitsch analyzes the atonal and dodecaphonic elements in the First Piano Sonata and their proximity to Hindemith. Adelina Yefimenko finds parallels between the first symphonies of Shostakovich and the Ukrainian Boris Lyatoshinsky. Gottfried Eberle shows the biographical thread in the "Aphorisms", including their proximity to the premonition of death in the last string quartet. Gerhard Müller tells of the connection between the Fourth Symphony and the murder of Maxim Gorky. Bernd Feuchtner traces the development of dance types from irony to sarcasm. Olga Dombrovskaya reports on the strange case of the delivery of deliberately "decadent avant-garde music" for a film. Brigitte Kruse examines the Darmstadt School's misunderstanding of Shostakovich. Johannes Schild analyzes the use of twelve-tone music in the early and late works: Shostakovich's twelve-tone fields are something different from Webern's twelve-tone rows. Elisabeth Wilson explores Shostakovich's relationship to the Italian avant-gardists Maderna and Nono. Manuel Gervink builds a bridge from Wolfgang Rihm to Shostakovich. And much more.

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The Schostakowitsch-Studien Volumes 1-11 have now been digitized and are available for free download on the website of the German Shostakovich Society: Volumes 1-11 of the Schostakowitsch-Studien

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