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Leningrad
Symphony under Siege: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Fight Against Nazism
August 9, 2020| Pete| 1499
The composer Dmitri Shostakovich died today in 1975. Decades earlier, during WW2, his Seventh Symphony became a global beacon of resistance to the Nazi empire when it was performed by a half-starved orchestra during the siege of Leningrad.
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