Dmitry Shostakovich (1981)

Panorama and views of the Moscow Conservatory hall (top), composer T.N. Khrennikov performing at the evening in memory of D.D. Shostakovich (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photograph of Shostakovich.

Conductor G.N. Rozhdestvensky at the conductor's stand during the performance of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Panorama of the Moscow Conservatory hall during the evening in memory of Shostakovich.

Stucco decorations on the walls of the hall, panorama of the orchestra (top).

Rozhdestvensky's face.

View of the orchestra, Rozhdestvensky at the conductor's stand (top), views of the Moscow Conservatory hall and orchestra.

Halls of the Leningrad Philharmonic.

Photographs of Shostakovich on the walls of one of the halls.

Bust of Shostakovich.

Photographs of Shostakovich's parents and sisters.

Childhood photographs of Shostakovich with his sisters.

Photograph of Shostakovich as a child.

Newsreel: the streets of St.

Petersburg in the 1910s.

Panorama of Znamenskaya Square with the monument to Alexander III (top).

Photograph of Shostakovich, fragments of feature films about the revolutionary events of 1917. Photograph of the building of the Petrograd Conservatory in 1919. Photograph of Shostakovich at the age of 13. Photograph of the director of the conservatory Glazunov.

Photographs of Shostakovich among the students and teachers of the conservatory.

Poster of the feature film "The Temporary Husband" with Shostakovich's name as a pianist.

Shostakovich's profile on a white background.

Fragments of silent feature films.

Newsreel from the early 1920s: a bike ride along the city streets.

Raising the sails on yachts before the start of an amateur regatta, regatta participants with banners in their hands take their places on the yachts.

Swimming competition participants descend to a reservoir.

A dive from a diving board into the water.

A rotating carousel.

Photographs of Shostakovich in his youth, interspersed with newsreels of rides on carousels and amusement rides.

Photograph of the composer Glazunov.

Photograph of the building of the Leningrad Philharmonic.

Photograph of Shostakovich with I. I. Sollertinsky.

Poster of Shostakovich's author's concert at the Moscow Conservatory on March 20, 1923, photographs of the composers Shebalin and Shostakovich (combined photography).

Photograph of Shostakovich and Shebalin among friends.

Newsreel: railroad tracks.

A steam locomotive shrouded in clouds of steam.

View of part of Warsaw in 1927. Steps of the staircase of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

Photograph of Shostakovich among the participants of the First International Chopin Piano Competition.

Photograph of pianist Lev Oborin, who received First Prize.

List of laureates and awards of the competition with Shostakovich's name.

Photograph of the Lenin monument in front of the entrance to the Moscow-Narva House of Culture in Leningrad.

Photographs of the scenery for Shostakovich's first opera, The Nose.

Fragments of the opera The Nose.

Newsreel: spectators leaving the auditorium.

Spectators in the foyer and on the stairs during the intermission.

A darkened photograph of Shostakovich.

Photographs of auditoriums and spectators' faces.

Photograph of Shostakovich.

Newsreel alternating with photographs: spectators in theatre halls.

A conductor at the podium.

Poster for Shostakovich's ballet The Golden Age.

Photographs of artists in costumes of characters and scenes from the ballet The Golden Age.

Posters, photographs, and exhibits dedicated to Shostakovich and his work on the walls of one of the halls of the Leningrad Philharmonic.

Newsreel: fragments of a football match in the 1930s, a photograph of Shostakovich in the stands of the stadium among the fans.

Participants in the physical culture parade march along Palace Square, views of the square during the parade.

A boxing ring, a model airplane, and a fountain move along Palace Square.

Athletes with oars march along.

Children in Red Navy uniforms and holding toy rifles march along Palace Square.

The parade participants march in formation in the shape of a ship.

The transoceanic liner Mikhail Lermontov during its voyage to the USA. Shostakovich on board the liner in 1949. Participants in a meeting with the composer on board the liner in the assembly hall.

Shostakovich speaks to passengers and officers of the liner.

A Luftwaffe seaplane in flight.

Soldiers of one of the people's militia divisions march in formation along a city street in 1941, with their relatives and friends seeing them off nearby.

An information stand for evacuation trains on a railway platform.

A Red Army commander says goodbye to his wife and children at a train carriage.

People board the carriage.

Construction of defensive lines on the approaches to Leningrad.

A photograph of Shostakovich in a firefighter's uniform and caste, on duty during an air raid.

A German bomber in flight.

A fire in Leningrad.

Shostakovich at the piano working on the score of the Seventh Leningrad Symphony in 1941. A panorama of one of the streets of besieged Leningrad (above), people clearing snow.

Leningraders removing broken ice on sleds in the spring of 1942. A cultural and art worker delivers a speech from the rostrum (synchronously).

The ceremony of presenting the Guards Banner to one of the units of the Red Army.

Shostakovich delivers a speech from the rostrum (synchronously).

A collective farmer who donated his savings to the needs of the front embraces tankers and takes off his hat in front of them.

Soviet tanks go on the attack.

Units of the Red Army fight on the Soviet-German front in 1943-1944, infantry and tanks in battle.

Marines attack.

Panorama of burnt Nazi equipment.

The body of a German tanker near a burning tank.

Destroyed German and Soviet tanks.

Episodes of air battles.

An anti-aircraft gun crew fires at German planes.

Units of the Red Army during an offensive off-road.

Manufacturing ammunition in the rear, faces of female workers.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Soviet infantry fights in the street.

Street battles in Berlin in April-May 1945. Captured Germans under escort pass by the firing position of guards rocket mortars firing.

A pilot near an airplane.

Shostakovich, sitting at the piano, lights a cigarette.

A stunned German artilleryman sits by a destroyed gun after the end of the Battle of Kursk, Shostakovich smokes a cigarette.

Photograph of Shostakovich.

The face of conductor K. Eliasberg.

The score on the conductor's stand, musical instruments on chairs (panorama).

Photograph of Shostakovich and Sollertinsky.

Photograph of Shostakovich with conductor E. Mravinsky in Novosibirsk.

Newsreel: wall newspaper "Soviet Philharmonic Player" with a greeting to Shostakovich.

The orchestra performs Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony in the USA, conducted by L. Stokowski.

Applauding spectators.

The orchestra performs "The Internationale", conducted by L. Stokowski.

People on the streets of Moscow in the spring of 1945. A trolleybus passes, Shostakovich walks down the street.

Photograph of the director of the Moscow Conservatory V. Shebalin.

Photograph of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

A group photograph of the teachers of the Moscow Conservatory.

A photograph of Shostakovich relaxing in nature.

A photograph of Shostakovich with his son.

A photograph of Shebalin with a cup in his hand.

Photographs of Shostakovich at work.

Photographs of Shostakovich with Sollertinsky and Sollertinsky's widow with her son.

A photograph of Shostakovich sitting in an empty auditorium.

Panorama of the theater hall, an orchestra on the stage.

Boris Gutnikov performs the solo violin part in Shostakovich's Second Violin Concerto, accompanied by the Leningrad Academic Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater, with Yuri Temirkanov conducting.

Newsreel from 1956: K.E. Voroshilov presents Shostakovich with his second Order of Lenin in the Kremlin and congratulates the composer on the award.

Shostakovich examines the Order of Lenin presented to him.

Pioneers present flowers to Shostakovich on stage during a concert in honor of his 50th birthday.

View of the auditorium.

Shostakovich's face.

One of the guests on stage reads out the text of the congratulatory address.

Shostakovich accepts congratulations and gifts from colleagues.

Shostakovich being awarded the Lenin Prize in 1958. Shostakovich's face.

A photograph of Shostakovich with composer Sergei Prokofiev.

People in the audience applaud the laureates.

Colleagues congratulate Shostakovich on receiving the Lenin Prize.

Text of the resolution awarding Shostakovich the Lenin Prize.

Shostakovich plays the piano.

Faces of Lenin Prize laureates, including Mark Bernes and Mikhail Zharov.

Shostakovich performs one of his works for cultural and artistic figures, faces of the audience.

Photographs of Shostakovich during his stay in France, views of the streets of Paris at night.

Shostakovich at the piano during a performance of one of his works.

The faces of the conductor and musicians, a photograph of Shostakovich.

View of the hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

The orchestra members stand up after the performance of a piece of music.

Shostakovich thanks the musicians.

Shostakovich's face.

The face of the writer Chingiz Aitmatov in the photograph.

Photographs of Shostakovich in his apartment during a performance of one of his works.

Photographs of Shostakovich (close-ups).

Photographs of Shostakovich and musicians.

Photograph of Shostakovich during a walk in the country.

Newsreel: Shostakovich walking along the boulevard.

Entrance to the building of the Leningrad Conservatory.

Shostakovich conducting a lesson with students in the piano class.

Shostakovich's face.

Photograph of Shostakovich with conservatory students and composer Aram Khachaturian.

Photographs of Shostakovich at meetings of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Photographs reflecting Shostakovich's social activities.

Photograph of Shostakovich in the cap and gown of Oxford University.

Photographs illustrating Shostakovich's participation in concerts and meetings of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Shostakovich's dacha.

Photograph of Shostakovich relaxing at his dacha.

Open window.

Title of the musical score of a piano sonata.

Pendulum of a wall clock.

Photograph of Shostakovich working on the score of his next work.

View from the window of Shostakovich's dacha, a telephone on the table (panorama).

Reflection of the window in the glass of the clock, the pendulum swinging. E.A. Mravinsky at the conductor's stand during a performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in the hall of the Leningrad Conservatory.

The orchestra under the direction of L. Bernstein performs the Fifth Symphony View of the Conservatory hall, the orchestra members stand up, the hall applauds.

The conductor thanks the orchestra members.

Shostakovich enters the orchestra, thanks the musicians and the conductor.

People in the hall applaud.

Photo of Shostakovich after one of the concerts.