Muddle Instead of Music
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title:
Muddle Instead of Music
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"Muddle Instead of Music: On the Opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" is an editorial that appeared in the Soviet newspaper Pravda on 28 January 1936. The unsigned article condemned Dmitri Shostakovich's popular opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District as, among other labels, "formalist", "bourgeois", "coarse" and "vulgar". Immediately after publication rumors began to circulate that Joseph Stalin had written the opinion. While this is unlikely, it is almost certain that Stalin was awar
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Soviet editorial in Pravda
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2023-12-06T14:51:10Z
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