Composer Study - Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

"Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people, it arouses them and leads them onward"

Dmitri Shostakovah (1906 - 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. Though famous in his own lifetime, he had a complex relationship with the Soviet government. Shostakovich wrote the first three movements of the Seventh Symphony in Leningrad while it was under siege by the Germans in World War 2. The first time he played it for friends, he was interrupted by German bombs. The first full performance was played by a half-starved orchestra, the drummer thought to be dead but found alive in a morgue by the conductor.

Composer Study

Start off with the Music Lesson which includes

  • Music Links

  • Read Alouds

  • Time & Place Connection Subjects

  • Recipe

Throughout the week, cover the Multi-Subject Connections

  • Science Activity, read aloud, fun code worksheets

  • Art Activity, read aloud, optional coloring page

  • Literature Activity, read aloud, copywork

  • History Activity, read alouds, geography activity, Book of Centuries

Shostakovich’ dessert: Pryanik cookies

Learn how to make this Russian dessert. Click on the picture below to go to the recipe.

 

Shostakovich’s Music

Song 1: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' in C major op 60

Music Class

SONG 2: Romance from The Gadfly op 97

Science Song

Song 3: Stalin’s Shadow: Symphony No. 5

Art Song

Song 4: Lady Macbeth of mtsenski

Literature Song

Song 5: Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110

History Song

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