This composer used a very conservative style to write his Symphony No. 5 in D minor as a response to the denunciation of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Soviet authorities.
This composer's Symphony No. 1 links its third and fourth movements with a crescendoing snare drum roll, and begins its first movement with a short passage for a muted solo trumpet. One of this composer's string quartets comprises five movements, the first and last marked Largo, and all five are played without a pause in between. That piece is this composer's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, which uses a recurring (*) "D, E-flat, C, B" motif also found in his E minor Symphony No. 10. This composer used a very conservative style to write his Symphony No. 5 in D minor as a response to the denunciation of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Soviet authorities. For 10 points, name this composer of the Leningrad Symphony.
This composer's Symphony No. 1 links its third and fourth movements with a crescendoing snare drum roll, and begins its first movement with a short passage for a muted solo trumpet.
Dmitri Shostakovich [or Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich