Shostakovich, Schumann

Dmitrij Sostakovic was born in 1906 and his history makes him one the most outstanding and controversial artists of the Sovietic Union. He died in 1975. Most of Dmitrij Sostakovic’s chamber operas were dedicated to Quartets for strings, a corpus of 15 operas, which equal the number of the Symphonies to which the Russian composer dedicated himself starting from 1938, accentuating his work in this field in elderly age. In addition to the Quartet compositions, Sostakovic’s chamber production, far from being abundant, is concentrated in the two Suites for jazz orchestra, in the three Sonate for string instrument (cello, violin and viola), in the Piano Quintet op. 57 and the Trio op. 67.