Shostakovich Resources

Further Reading

Fay, Laurel. Shostakovich: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Macdonald, Ian. The New Shostakovich (Northeastern University Press, 1990).

Volkov, Solomon, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, transl. Antonina W. Bouis (Harper & Row, 1979).

Wilson, Elizabeth. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Links:

The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music: image and biography

The New Shostakovich: extended Shostakovich timeline

Shostakovich.org: comprehensive information about Shostakovich:

Compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich: catalog of Shostakovich's compositions including lists of recordings

The DSCH Journal: scholarly studies on Shostakovich; quiz on Shostakovich

Ian McDonald's Music Under Soviet Rule: documents, timelines, his views on the Shostakovich controversies

Russian Music and Literature: information and links to other sites from Bucknell University's Russian Studies Department