Biographies Russian Composers Dmitry Shostakovich

Dmitry Shostakovich

Born: 1906, St Petersburg
Died: 1975, Moscow

Composer. Born in St Petersburg (1906) to engineer Dmitry Shostakovich (1875–1922) and pianist Sofia Kokoulina (1878–1955). Wrote the Leningrad Symphony during the Siege of Leningrad (1943). Died of lung cancer in Moscow and buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery (1975).

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