Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147
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- Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Instrumentation: Piano, Viola
- Work: Viola Sonata, Op. 147
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Description
Shostakovich's last work, the Viola Sonata, Op. 147, is a superbly crafted Sonata in three movements with, unusually, a slow Adagio movement for the third. It was dedicated to the violist Fyodor Druzhinin, a professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a member of the Beethoven String Quartet, a renowned Moscow ensemble that played at the premieres of most of Shostakovich's string quartets. Fyodor Druzhinin and Mikhail Muntyan premiered the Viola Sonata in Leningrad on October 1, 1975.