He called that work "an artist's response to justified criticism.
The third movement of this man's first string quartet features a transition from C-sharp minor to F- sharp major with a repeated scherzo. He dedicated his Sonata for Violin and Piano to David Oistrakh and included "Birthday" in a series of piano solos that he called Children's Notebook. His 5th symphony ends with an allegro non troppo movement and includes a timpani solo in (*) D major. He called that work "an artist's response to justified criticism." This man's 13th symphony, done in B minor, was set to poems by Robert Burnsand Yevgeny Yevtushenko to depict the site of a massacre. For 10 points, identify this Soviet composer of the Babi Yar and Leningrad symphonies.
The third movement of this man's first string quartet features a transition from C-sharp minor to F- sharp major with a repeated scherzo.
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich