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SINFONIE NR 8

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 was composed within a period of only a few weeks in 1943. Its
unusual formal structure  with five very unevenly balanced movements  was not the only thing to
alienate the critics at first: above all  the expected triumphant final movement was missing 
which would have symbolised the turning point of the on-going war after the Battle of
Stalingrad. While it was officially agreed that this symphony reflected the horror of war  the
conductor Kurt Sanderling  a friend of Shostakovich  said that it was a representation of the
horror of an intellectual's life at that time.This volume is part of the revised and corrected
new edition of all 15 symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich published by Boosey & Hawkes and
Sikorski as large format study scores for optimal legibility. All scores and the related
orchestral parts have been newly computer typeset  and the orchestral parts are also compatible
for performance use with scores in 'The New Collected Works of Dmitri
Shostakovich'.Instrumentation:orchestraop. 65

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