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In Reply to: Thoughts on the last Shostakovich quartet. (from a work in progress) posted by patrick S on March 26, 2000 at 05:29:46:
Powerful music,isn't it. And still relevant today with Russia about to turn back again towards authoritarianism as is did in DSCH's day under Brehznev. Today, as I finished reading Elizabeth Wilson's book, I spun the Fitzwilliam disc of the 14th and the 15th quartets. And you're right, the music just ends with nowhere to go. But it is far from clear that he intended the 15th to be his last quartet. Wilson quotes some of his contemporaries as saying he intended to write 24 quartets, one in each key as in Bach's classic WTC, a practice which he followed in his remarkable set of preludes and fugues. With his health declining rapidly and his friends from youth dying all over the place, it is no surprise his last works took on a tragic turn. But he grieves for more than just himself, the last movement of the piano trio, written in 1944 long before his health failed, just ends too. Perhaps for the death of hope of a nation, even on the eve of the defeat of the Nazi invaders.
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