EXPLAINS ALOT
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Yes “ALOT” is one word
Deal with it bitch
Deal with it bitch
Deal with it bitch
Words are all made up anyway.
It makes more sense now.
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Imo most of Shosty’s music is horrible
I know he was a genius and all but his aesthetics kill my ears sorry
ahahaha da KHACH look lyk he holdin a cig datz photozhopped away
alzo wuznt da ZHOZT da moz ztate-approved mofo durin da zoviet era?
cumpared to da mentally quazi-defectah PROK wiz villa in france or zumzheeyat
n full azylum ezcape from da taliban level ROCK 
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Nah, Shosty legit lost his conservatory job and got banned for composing after one of his operas in da 1930’s was deemed to be “noise” (the stuff is horrid tho, sorry)
Eventually got “rehabilitated” but yeah, one of many Soviet mofos who got their avant-garde shit banned by authorities
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I remember learning about this and it’s always cast as them being heroic mofos battling against things BUT shosta and prok GLAZE the fuck out of Stalin to get back into good graces after catching shit. They leave that out.
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Proper Soviet music
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This is good music!
ahahah zo who WUZ da moz ztate-approved zoviet mofo den? lyk fo a zuztained period of tym. Da PROK kinda. cud it pozz be da
kabalevzky?
diz clearly da moz vanilla non-cuntroverzial mofo
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Yep he was one of them!
Wasn’t he part of the anti formalism thing to expertly displace the heavy hitters for his trash music?
Yep!
Gilels famously became a communist party member and has special contracts for his tours abroad which allowed him to actually keep the earnings
Shosta:
- The Pravda editorial (widely understood as reflecting Stalin’s view) effectively ended Lady Macbeth’s Soviet stage life and put Shostakovich in danger; his Symphony No. 4 was withdrawn under pressure. Shostakovich+1
- His “return” piece was Symphony No. 5 (1937)—publicly framed as “A Soviet artist’s creative response to just criticism” and received as a political/artistic rehabilitation.
Basically “Harder daddy!”
Hard to say what their real opinion was. They were just given papers to sign to denounce enemies of the state and everyone risked gulag with entire apartment buildings being sent to camps
But….
Nobody had credit card debt, student loans and rent was next to nothing
(Bruh)
Triangle milk boxes tho. This probably primary downside.
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Yeah shosty lost close to everything when writing the more avant garde stuff
I’m grateful I’m not contracted to rec his “music”
I AI the formalism thingy.
1948 (the big “anti-formalism” campaign)
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The key driver was the Communist Party leadership (Politburo/Central Committee) issuing the famous decree around Muradeli’s opera The Great Friendship, launching a broad purge of “formalism” in music. Cambridge University Press & Assessment+1
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Andrei Zhdanov (senior Party ideologist) is consistently identified as the campaign’s chief political architect in the cultural sphere. EBSCO+1
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Implementation and enforcement were pushed through institutions like the Union of Soviet Composers—with Tikhon Khrennikov (installed at the top of that system) famously denouncing targeted composers and acting as a key enforcer.