Shostakovich named one movement of his dark String
Quartet No. 15"intermezzo";
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That's like clanging a cowbell at the end of Shostakovich's Seventh.
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Dmitri Shostakovich experienced a long and complex relationship
with Stalin during which his music was denounced and prohibited twice, in 1936 and 1948(see Zhdanov decree).