{"product_id":"16295-shostakovich-dimitri-signed-photograph-with-autograph-musical-quotation-of-the-piano-trio-no-2-in-e-minor-op-67","title":"Shostakovich, Dimitri. (1906-1975) Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation of the Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67","description":"Pristine signed photograph of 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.  An original photograph, signed and inscribed boldly in purple ink in the lower blank margin to \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eU.M. Krasovsky [Russian; 1917-2006], dated 1947, and inscribed by the composer with a detailed three-measure autograph musical quotation marked \"Allegro\" from his \u003c\/span\u003ePiano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67. Light toning; inscription slightly smudged, otherwise overall fine. Affixed to a same-size mount, 4 x 5.75 inches (10 x 14.8 cm).\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eShostakovich\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e's Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67, is remarkable for a number of reasons. It was written in 1944, just after his Symphony No. 8, with which it shares its overall structure; it is a lamentation for both \u003c\/span\u003eShostakovich\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e's close friend, musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky, and the victims of the Holocaust, the news of which horror did not reach the U.S.S.R. until the liberation of the camps began; and it is his first work to employ a \"Jewish theme,\" a musical tribute that used the scales and rhythms of Jewish folk music as \u003c\/span\u003eShostakovich\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e knew it. \u003c\/span\u003eShostakovich\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e began composing the trio in December 1943 but had only completed sketches, which he was able to share with Sollertinsky before Sollertinsky's death in February 1944. \u003c\/span\u003eShostakovich\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e performed the piano part in the premiere, on November 14, 1944, in Leningrad, with violinist \u003c\/span\u003eDmitri Tsyganov\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and cellist \u003c\/span\u003eSergei Shirinsky\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, both members of the Beethoven String Quartet. The present AMQS quotes the opening of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003efinal Allegretto, where the Jewish figurations -- the Dorian mode with an augmented fourth and the iambic rhythms -- are used in a macabre dance that is contrasted against a stern march and five-beat climbs up and down the scale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093612843167,"sku":"16295","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Shostakovich_SP_AMQS_16295.jpg?v=1722189189","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/16295-shostakovich-dimitri-signed-photograph-with-autograph-musical-quotation-of-the-piano-trio-no-2-in-e-minor-op-67","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}