Shostakovich Reconsidered

by Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov

Book Overview

Dmitry Shostakovich's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907689574
• ISBN13: 9780907689577
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Toccata Press
• Length: 792 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"