Time to Face the Music: Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony and the Siege of Leningrad

It was in his music that Shostakovich expressed thoughts and feelings about the radically evolving political landscape of 20th century. Bolshevism Stalin’s subsequent inheritance USSR promulgated a refashion arts, forcing to be an instrument state order avoid being victim. during Hitler’s Siege Leningrad where Shostakovich, ironically, did not feel like victim, but custodian powerful weapon dared defy forces beyond comprehension. In response Bolshevik crusade, would launch ideological crusade own, composed through medium symphony.