5 Introduction
  1926
9 It was in 1926, with his student days behind him, that the twenty-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich began his independent adult life.
  1927
11 At the beginning of the year Shostakovich was in Moscow.
  1928
15 Right at the beginning of the year (8 January) Shostakovich accepted Vsevolod Meyerhold’s offer of the post of musical director and pianist at his theatre in Moscow.
  1929
22 As Dmitry Shostakovich, completed his post-graduate course at the Leningrad Conservatoire, his creative work became even more intensive, with the main stress failing on his music for the theatre and cinema.
  1930
24 This year was marked by the first performances of several of Shostakovich’s important works, including The Nose and the Third Symphony.
  1931
30 As in all his younger years, in 1931 Shostakovich was working concurrently on several compositions.
  1932
32 Shostakovich considered the resolution issued by the Party Central Committee on 23 April ’On the Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organisations’ an important landmark in the histoiy of Soviet art, an important step towards consolidating the country’s artistic forces in the name of creating a new, socialist art.
  1933
35 Preparations for the staging of "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk were underway in two theatres - the Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow and the Maly Opera House in Leningrad.
  1934
44 The two premieres of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk took place in quick succession: on 22 January in the Maly Opera House (conductor Samuil Samosud), and on 24 January in the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre (conductor Grigory Stolyarov).
  1935
51 The most important work composed this year was The Limpid Stream, Shostakovich’s third and final ballet.
  1936
67 At the end of January Shostakovich set off for Arkhangelsk where he and the cellist Victor Kubatsky gave a concert including his Cello Sonata.
  1937
69 This year marked the start of a period of renewed creative and public activity in Shostakovich’s life.
  1938
72 This was in many ways a noteworthy year in Shostakovich’s life. For one thing, by writing his string quartet, the composer made his debut in a new genre which was later to become one of his most successful genres.
  1939
77 Early in the year the composer began work on his Sixth Symphony, which engrossed him completely and was to be his main achievement of the year.
  1940
80 In 1940 Shostakovich composed one of his most important pre-war works-his Piano Quintet.
  1941
84 For Shostakovich, as for all his fellow-countrymen, 1941 was sharply divided into two—the months of peace and the months of war.
  1942
91 Shostakovich’s life was normally fairly hectic, but 1942 was a particularly strenuous year for him.
   
  
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