This man went to Dresden to compose the film score to the movie Five Days, Five Nights.
This man went to Dresden to compose the film score to the movie Five Days, Five Nights. That trip to Dresden inspired the composition of the eighth of his fifteen string quartets. This composer's posthumously published Testimony elucidates his musical motives. He responded to an article in Pravda with his fifth symphony, sometimes called "A creative response to justified criticism." This man condemned the Nazi invasion of his home country with his Leningrad Symphony. He composed an opera that adapts a Nikolai Leskov novel and focuses on Katherina Ismailova. For 10 points, name this Soviet composer of fifteen symphonies and the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District.
This man went to Dresden to compose the film score to the movie Five Days, Five Nights.
Dmitri Shostakovich