The third movement of this work is a funeral march supposed to represent the composer's own death, andKiril Kondrasian's suggested cuts were met with a demand to "let them eat it!
The third movement of this work is a funeral march supposed to represent the composer's own death, andKiril Kondrasian's suggested cuts were met with a demand to "let them eat it! Let them eat it all!". Duringthe composition of this work, the composer left the house every morning with a bag of soap and atoothbrush, and this work was ordered to be withdrawn before a December 1936 premiere due to"dissatisfaction", by the composer due to its "grandiosomania". This symphony calls for two sections ofthree timpanis, and this work features an eight minute Moderato con moto sandwiched between two almosthalf-hour long movements. The "Muddle Instead of Music" editorial appeared during the composition ofthis work, and attacked its composer's Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District for the crime of "formalism".For 10 points, name this work whose premature response led its Soviet composer to write a reply to "justcriticism".
The third movement of this work is a funeral march supposed to represent the composer's own death, andKiril Kondrasian's suggested cuts were met with a demand to "let them eat it!
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43