The finale of this composer's Piano Trio No. 2 includes an oom-pah ostinato alternating between E-major and Dsharp dominant-seventh chords.
The finale of this composer's Piano Trio No. 2 includes an oom-pah ostinato alternating between E-major and Dsharp dominant-seventh chords. One symphony by this composer quotes the song "You Fell a Victim" in its third movement, a funeral march in G minor titled "Eternal Memory." This man was the subject of a possibly fraudulent 1979 memoir titled Testimony, and was attacked in the article "Muddle Instead of Music." This composer of a symphony subtitled "The Year 1905" used the motive E-A-E-D-A to represent Elmira Nazirova in his Symphony No. 10 in E minor. Another symphony by him was inspired by the Nazi invasion of a certain city and features a 22- bar snare drum "invasion theme." For 10 points, name this Soviet composer of the "Leningrad" Symphony.
The finale of this composer's Piano Trio No. 2 includes an oom-pah ostinato alternating between E-major and Dsharp dominant-seventh chords.
Dmitri (Dmitriyevich) Shostakovich