Shostakovich D. Romance from the film Gad-fly, CPH

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979-0-66004-935-8 Shostakovich D. Romance from the music to the film Gad-fly. Piano score and parts. Transcription for violoncello (viola) and piano by A. Lazko, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

Series of books, “The Cellist's Golden Repertoire”, include major works from the world literature for cello, which are the basis of both performers' and students' repertoires. Alongside the large-scale chamber works for cello solo and with piano, short concert pieces will be found in the books of the series, as well as piano transcriptions of concertos for cello and orchestra.
Some works are widely known and have been frequently published before, others have been undeservedly neglected and are now brought to life from oblivion, still others are new works and transcriptions which see their first publication.
The editor's purpose was to combine the original directions from the composer with the modern manner of performance. Particular attention was paid to fingering in the works of the student's repertoire.
Beside well-known and published before pieces the book includes undeservedly neglected works as well as quite new and first published ones.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire as a pianist in 1923 (Leonid Nikolayev’s class) and as a composer in 1925 (Maximilian Steinberg’s class).
Since 1937 Shostakovich started his pedagogical activity (from 1937 was appointed a professor) at the Leningrad Conservatoire, and in 1943–1948 served as a professor of the Moscow Conservatoire.
Among his disciples there are German Galynin, Orest Yevlakhov, Kara Karayev, Yuri Levitin, Georgy Sviridov, Boris Tishchenko, Galina Ustvolskaya, Karen Hachaturyan and Boris Tchaikovsky. In 1947–1948 Shostakovich was the head of the Leningrad Department of the Russian Composers’ Union. He created actually in all possible music genres.

Pages: 4+2.
Softcover.
Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg; 2009