Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin
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title:
Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin
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The Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin by Dmitri Shostakovich is a song cycle composed in 1974. It is his final vocal work. Despite having a lifelong appreciation for the writings of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Shostakovich did not embark on a large-scale musical setting of them until the penultimate year of his life, when he became fascinated by Captain Ignat Lebyadkin, a character who affected to be a learned poet in Demons. Shostakovich had read the novel while convalescing in Barvikha. He selected sev
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1974 song cycle by Dmitri Shostakovich
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Verses_of_Captain_Lebyadkin
date created:
2023-05-12T06:47:58Z
date modified:
2024-04-27T09:38:51Z
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