Shostakovich, Dimitri. (1906-1975). Signed Letter - STILL WAITING AFTER A YEAR FOR HIS TELEPHONE TO BE INSTALLED. Typed Letter Signed, "D.Shostakovich," as Chief Secretary of the Composers Union, to Konstantine Pavlovich of the Moscow Telephone Company, in Russian, requesting that a telephone line be installed for composer A.F. Titov, explaining that Titov needs the phone to facilitate his work with many small orchestras, and reminding him that he himself also requested a phone for on May 3, 1961, but none has been installed. 1 page, tall 4to, "Secretariat of the Union of Russian Composers" stationery; faint soiling at folds. Moscow, 28 November 1962
An interesting letter from the esteemed Soviet composer whose 15 symphonies and large body of chamber and instrumental works occupy a place of central importance in the 20th-century repertoire. Though we could find almost no biographical information about the Titov mentioned here, he evidently composed a number of pro-Stalin songs, including the 1939 "Rukoy ispitannoyu Stalin narodi bratskie vedyot," whose catchy lyrics give a hint of what the music is like: " What we've dreamed of for centuries / great works for our people / what Stalin envisions, he stubbornly fights for...Always and everywhere with us Lenin-He lives in the minds, lives in the hearts...").
An interesting letter from the esteemed Soviet composer whose 15 symphonies and large body of chamber and instrumental works occupy a place of central importance in the 20th-century repertoire. Though we could find almost no biographical information about the Titov mentioned here, he evidently composed a number of pro-Stalin songs, including the 1939 "Rukoy ispitannoyu Stalin narodi bratskie vedyot," whose catchy lyrics give a hint of what the music is like: " What we've dreamed of for centuries / great works for our people / what Stalin envisions, he stubbornly fights for...Always and everywhere with us Lenin-He lives in the minds, lives in the hearts...").
Shostakovich, Dimitri. (1906-1975). Signed Letter - STILL WAITING AFTER A YEAR FOR HIS TELEPHONE TO BE INSTALLED. Typed Letter Signed, "D.Shostakovich," as Chief Secretary of the Composers Union, to Konstantine Pavlovich of the Moscow Telephone Company, in Russian, requesting that a telephone line be installed for composer A.F. Titov, explaining that Titov needs the phone to facilitate his work with many small orchestras, and reminding him that he himself also requested a phone for on May 3, 1961, but none has been installed. 1 page, tall 4to, "Secretariat of the Union of Russian Composers" stationery; faint soiling at folds. Moscow, 28 November 1962
An interesting letter from the esteemed Soviet composer whose 15 symphonies and large body of chamber and instrumental works occupy a place of central importance in the 20th-century repertoire. Though we could find almost no biographical information about the Titov mentioned here, he evidently composed a number of pro-Stalin songs, including the 1939 "Rukoy ispitannoyu Stalin narodi bratskie vedyot," whose catchy lyrics give a hint of what the music is like: " What we've dreamed of for centuries / great works for our people / what Stalin envisions, he stubbornly fights for...Always and everywhere with us Lenin-He lives in the minds, lives in the hearts...").
An interesting letter from the esteemed Soviet composer whose 15 symphonies and large body of chamber and instrumental works occupy a place of central importance in the 20th-century repertoire. Though we could find almost no biographical information about the Titov mentioned here, he evidently composed a number of pro-Stalin songs, including the 1939 "Rukoy ispitannoyu Stalin narodi bratskie vedyot," whose catchy lyrics give a hint of what the music is like: " What we've dreamed of for centuries / great works for our people / what Stalin envisions, he stubbornly fights for...Always and everywhere with us Lenin-He lives in the minds, lives in the hearts...").