Zitate von Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch
Geburtstag: 12. September 1906
Todesdatum: 9. August 1975
Andere Namen: Шостакович Дмитрий Дмитриевич, Дмитрий Шостакович
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch war ein russischer Komponist, Pianist und Pädagoge der Sowjetzeit. Neben 15 Sinfonien, Instrumentalkonzerten, Bühnenwerken und Filmmusik komponierte er 15 Streichquartette, die zu den Hauptwerken des Kammermusikrepertoires aus dem 20. Jahrhundert zählen.
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„Art destroys silence.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony: The Memoirs
„I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist…Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Letter to Isaac Glikman, February 26, 1960; Josiah Fisk & Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (1997) p. 354.
„When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 175
„The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 156
„What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 229
„I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 183.
„Jewish folk music has made a most powerful impression on me. I never tire of delighting in it, it's multifaceted, it can appear to be happy while it is tragic. It's almost always laughter through tears. This quality of Jewish folk music is close to my ideas of what music should be. There should always be two layers in music. Jews were tormented for so long that they learned to hide their despair. They express despair in dance music.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 156
„For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most people are average, neither black nor white. They're gray. A dirty shade of gray. And it's in that vague gray middle ground that the fundamental conflicts of our age take place.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 94
„I write music, it's performed. It can be heard, and whoever wants to hear it will. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony
Testimony (1979), Page 196
„I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Testimony (1979), It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."
Page 183.
„Not since the time of Berlioz has a symphonic composer created such a stir. In far-away America, great conductors vie with each other for the jus primae noctis of his music. The score of his Seventh Symphony, the symphony of struggle and victory, has been reduced to a roll of microfilm and flown half-way across the world…to speed the day of the American première. How the old romantics would have loved to be the center of such a fantastic adventure!“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Nicolas Slonimsky in The Musical Quarterly, 1942; reprinted in his Writings on Music (2005), p. 84.
