Symphony number 15, his last, was completed in 1971, while the patriotic Seventh Symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony, was started during the siege of that city.  
His Symphony Number 2 is known as October. Number 3 is First of May, Number 12 is 1917 and Number 13 is Babi Yar. Symphony number 15, his last, was completed in 1971, while the patriotic Seventh Symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony, was started during the siege of that city.  A denunciation, supposedly written by Josef Stalin, of his 1936 opera included an understood death threat, prompting him to postpone the premiere of his Fourth Symphony and write the more conventional Fifth Symphony. FTP, who wrote the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District?
His Symphony Number 2 is known as October. Number 3 is First of May, Number 12 is 1917 and Number 13 is Babi Yar.
Dmitri Dmitrievich {Shostakovich}