Loyalty (Shostakovich)
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Loyalty (Shostakovich)
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Loyalty, Op. 136 is a cycle of eight ballads for men's chorus a capella composed by Dmitri Shostakovich based upon texts by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky. It was composed in commemoration of the centennial of Vladimir Lenin's birth in 1970. Shostakovich had contemplated composing a vocal work in tribute to Lenin as early as 1968; by 1969, he announced that he was envisioning a work in oratorio form. A visit to a mass song event in the Estonian SSR that same year helped him to settle on composing Loyalty a
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1970 song cycle for male choir by Dmitri Shostakovich
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_(Shostakovich)
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2023-12-23T21:36:22Z
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