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The Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40, was composed in 1934 by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was also a period of emotional turmoil in his life, as he had fallen in love with a young student at a Leningrad festival featuring his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.
The Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 is a composition for two violins, viola, cello, and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. He composed it between July 13 and September 14, 1940. Sources conflict on where he began to compose it—the location is variously stated to be Shalovo, Kellomäki, or Moscow—but most agree that it was completed ...
Mar 16, 1998 · Shostakovich: Cello Sonata; Piano Quintet by Dmitry Shostakovich released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at All...
BPM. 230. Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music of Piano Quintet OP. 57 - Dmitri Shostakovich for Piano Quintet Op. 57 by Dmitri Shostakovich arranged by leoderfette for Piano, Viola, Cello (Mixed Ensemble)
The only big chamber piece before the Cello Sonata, his Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8, is a sprawling 20-minute, single-movement student work that unexpectedly won Shostakovich admission into the graduate composition course at the Moscow Conservatory, to which he wanted to transfer from the more restrictive Leningrad Conservatory.
This sense of a modern voice within an unbroken traditional lineage is nowhere more apparent than with his glorious piano quintet of 1940. Impressed with his first string quartet, the Moscow-based Beethoven quartet asked Shostakovich to write a quintet featuring Shostakovich himself at the piano.
Alfred Schnittke’s First Cello Sonata, together with his Piano Quintet (1976), the Third Violin Concerto (1978) and the Four Hymns (1974–9), marks the start of a new
