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Allan Ho
Author_Allan B. Ho
Author_Dmitry Feofanov
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Communist regime
Dmitry Feofanov
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Lawyer
Memoirs
Moral stature
Musicologist
Pianist
Shostakovich
Solomon Volkov
Soviet system
Testimony
Western musicologists
Product details
- ISBN 9780907689577
- Weight: 1002g
- Dimensions: 143 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Toccata Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Establishes beyond any doubt the enormous courage of one of the giants of the age
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 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, Shostakovich's 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.
