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The Masterpiece
2015
Overview
The period from 1946 to 1953 (the year of Stalin’s death) saw a new terror, in which repression of the arts reached an apogee. Shostakovich was among the composers condemned in the Communist Party’s 1948 “antiformalism” decree. Following the publication of this decree, he was removed from his teaching positions, and a number of his works were banned. Through these years, Shostakovich had to write mostly “for the drawer” and published only his weaker but politically correct pieces. With one notable exception—the Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues—his best compositions of the period, including the Violin Concerto No. 1, op.
