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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer, among the most important of the twentieth century, best known for his fifteen symphonies and fifteen string quartets. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was denounced in Pravda in 1936, and he was attacked again in 1948, yet his Seventh Symphony, written during the siege of Leningrad, became a symbol of Soviet resistance in the Second World War.
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