Dmitry Shostakovich, sport and politics in the USSR

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Notes

^1. Fay, Shostakovich: A Life, 84.

^2. Garafola, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 59.

^3. Martynov, Maurice Ravel, 195.

^4. Lambert, Music Ho!, 217.

^5. For another discussion of sport and musical modernism, see Bateman, ‘“Ludus Tonalis”’.

^6. Marinetti, ‘Manifeste du futurisme’, Le Figaro, February 20, 1909. Quoted in Brobinskaya, Futurizm – radikal'naja revoljucija.

^7. ‘Spartakiada’ is the name of the important Moscow sports event used by the Soviet authorities instead of the title ‘Olimpiada’.

^8. Shostakovich, ‘Avtor – o muzike baleta’ [The author on his Ballet music] in Zolotoy vek [the Golden Age], 4.

^9. D. Shostakovich, ‘Nash sovremennik’, Izwestiya, January 23, 1966, 3.

^10. Fay, Shostakovich: A Life, 111.

^11. This was confirmed by a friend of Shostakovich, the Russian composer Vladlen Chistyakov (1929–2011). In a private conversation with the author of this article, Chistyakov remembered that he was present alongside Shostakovich at the stadium in Budapest.

^12. D. Shostakovich, ‘Nash sovremennik’, Izwestiya, January 23, 1966, 3.

^13. Ibid.

^14. ‘Grossbuch’ is a Russian bookkeeping term (of German origin) for the ledger.

^15. Dombrovskaya, ‘Dve stranitsy iz ezhednevnika D. Shostakovicha’ [Two pages from D. Shostakovich's Diary], 78.

^16. Shostakovich, Pis'ma k drugu: Dmitry Shostakovich – Isaaku Glikmanu [Letters to a friend: Dmitry Shostakovich – Isaak Glikman], 17.

^17. This fact was recounted by the composer V. Chistyakov.

^18. Khentova, Udivitelnyi Shostakovich [Amazing Shostakovich], 196.

^19. Shostakovich and Shostakovich, Nash otets DSch [Our father was DSch], 43.

^20. Rodion Shedrin, ‘Football v yablonevom sadu’ [Football in an apple orchard], Nezavisimaya gazeta, September 22, 2006, 40.

^21. Beria, Moy otets – Lavrentii Beria [My father – Lavrentii Beria], 98.

^22. Evening Moscow, May 13, 1944.

^23. Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 182.