Talk:Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) is within the scope of WikiProject Classical music, which aims to improve, expand, cleanup, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that aren't covered by other classical music related projects. Please read the guidelines for writing and maintaining articles. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.
	This article is supported by the Compositions task force.

[edit] No Mention of the Second denunciation by the Soviet government

The frivolity of the ninth symphony, and the pessimism of the eighth, was “seen as a parody of war symphonies and their heroism, or an inappropriate denigration of both the evil of the enemy and the magnitude of triumph” by many, including Zhdanov (Tomoff, 2006, p. 88-89). I think its important that this article mention that Shostakovich was accused of imparting Bolshevik formalism and anti-revolutionism in these works (Tomoff), or at least that it was a very unexpected responce to Russia's success in world war two.

[edit] Personal Feelings, and No Mention of Beethoven's 9th!!

I consider this work to be one of Shostakovich's best. Also no mention is made of the quote from Beethovin's 9th symphony in this work. I also get the feeling that this work is somewhat influenced by Prokoviev's "Classical Symphony" This was the first work I ever heard of Shotakovich's. I still remember the record jacket depicting lovely Russian peasent girls dancing in line. That was in the late 50's or early 60's.