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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„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.
„It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Page 8
Of his Eleventh Symphony.
„A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Letter to Isaac Glikman, August 28, 1955; Josiah Fisk & Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (1997) p. 364.
„I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
In discussion with an opera audience, January 14, 1930; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 55.
„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
Page 94
„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
Page 156
„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
Page 183.
„What do you think of Puccini?
[ Britten: "I think his operas are dreadful." ]
No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Quoted in Lord Harewood The Tongs and the Bones (1981) p. 133.
