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... In his memoirs from that year, a nineteen-year-old Shostakovich tells us that as a student in Leningrad he was enthused over the works of Stravinsky, Hindemith and K_enek, which he heard at concerts of the "Association for Contemporary Music," and certainly many of his early compositions capture the freewheeling and controversial Leningrad atmosphere of the late 1920s. ...
Shostakovich completed his First Symphony in December 1925 as his graduation exercise at the Leningrad Conservatory, though some of the material must go back to an earlier date. Its premiere in May of 1926 was received with such tumultuous enthusiasm that performances followed in Moscow, Berlin, and in the United States, giving the young Shostakovich an international reputation. ... In the first movement, the happy, young Shostakovich is running down the Nevsky Prospect on a Sunday.
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