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Chicken Invaders 9 on this page. Contents • • • • • • • • Composition and performances [ ] The piece was written shortly after two traumatic events in the life of the composer: the first presentation of debilitating muscular weakness that would eventually be diagnosed as, and his reluctant joining of the. According to the score, it is dedicated 'to the victims of and the '; his son interprets this as a reference to the victims of all, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by the Russian authorities. Shostakovich's friend,, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit around this time. Rabinowitz has also pointed to covert references to Richard Strauss's in the Eighth Quartet. The work was written in, where Shostakovich was to write music for the film, a joint project by Soviet and East German film-makers about the in. The quartet was premiered in 1960 in by the. The music critic Erik Smith wrote in the of the 1962 recording that The Borodin Quartet played this work to the composer at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms.

But Shostakovich, overwhelmed by this beautiful realisation of his most personal feelings, buried his head in his hands and wept. When they had finished playing, the four musicians quietly packed up their instruments and stole out of the room. Music [ ] The quartet, extremely compact and focused, is in five interconnected movements and lasts about twenty minutes: I. Allegro Molto III. Allegretto IV. Largo The first movement opens with the motif- Shostakovich's musical signature. This slow, extremely sad theme can also be heard in his,,,, and.

The motif is used in every movement of this quartet, and is the basis of the faster theme of the third movement. Problems playing this file? The work is filled with quotations of other pieces by Shostakovich: the first movement quotes his and; the second movement uses a Jewish theme first used by Shostakovich in his; the third movement quotes the; and the fourth movement quotes the 19th century 'Tormented by Grievous Bondage' (original title: Zamuchen tyazholoy nevolyey) and the 'Seryozha, my love' from Shostakovich's opera. The fifth contains a play upon a motif also from Lady Macbeth.

It has been transcribed by for string orchestra, in which version it is known as Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. In literature [ ] This quartet is heavily referenced in 's novel, and a central part of that novel discusses its writing and the composer's life under the Soviet system. In film [ ] The fourth movement of the quartet is used extensively in, a 2015 film directed.

In education [ ] The first movement of the piece was a set work for music A level between 2008 and 2016. The whole string quartet was used as the A level set work for the WJEC exam board Notes [ ]. • • Shostakovich, ed. • Rabinowitz, Peter J (May 2007).. Retrieved 5 December 2017.

• Mia Chung; Arnold Steinhardt.. Retrieved 6 January 2017. In the liner notes of the Borodin String Quartet’s recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet, critic Erik Smith wrote, 'The Borodin Quartet played this work for the composer at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms. But Shostakovich, overwhelmed by this beautiful realization of his most personal feelings, buried his head in his hands and wept. When they had finished playing, the four musicians quietly packed up their instruments and stole out of the room.'