Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Music DepartmentComposerWriter
Born
September 25, 1906
Died
August 9, 1975

Dmitri Shostakovich, one of Russian culture's most acclaimed intellectuals who was censored under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, was an internationally recognized composer whose music was in over 100 films. He was born Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich on September 25, 1906, in St. Petersburg,…