Shostakovich Reconsidered
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Establishes beyond any doubt the enormous courage of one of the giants of the age Dmitry Shostakovichs memoirs Testimony related to and edited by Solomon Volkov have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was Testimony a forgery made up by an impudent impostor or was it the deathbed confession of a bent but unbroken man? Even now years after the fall of the communist regime a coterie of well-placed Western musicologists have regularly raised objections to Testimony hoping with each attack to undermine the picture of Shostakovich presented in his memoirs that of a man of enormous moral stature bitterly disillusioned with the Soviet system. Here Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov systematically address all of the accusations levelled at Testimony and Solomon Volkov Shostakovichs amanuensis amassing an enormous amount of material about Shostakovich and his position in Soviet society and burying forever the pictureof Shostakovich as a willing participant in the communist charade. ALLAN B. HO is a musicologist DMITRY FEOFANOV a lawyer and pianist.
