Shakespeare, William, 86-87, 194; Hamlet,
zin, 1 52, 1 55, 1 85, 240; Fifteenth Sym
Russian productions, 83-90; King Lear,
phon!.,
Symphony, xxxi-xxxiii,
84-87, 131n; Macbeth, 86
XXXVll,
1 35, 1 36, 148, 1 56, 183-
Shaporin, Yuri Alexandrovich, 44n
184, 224, 265-266]"irst Piano Sonata, xii;
Shaw, George Bernard, 200
First Symphony, xxiii-xxiv, 1 1-12, 45,
Shcherbachev, composer, 35
53n, 75, 80, 1 56; First Violin Concerto,
Shchukin, Boris, 89-90
xxxvii, 1 57; "Four Poems of Captain Leb
Shebalin, Vissarion Yakovlevich (Ronya),
yadkin," 237n; Fourteenth Symphony,
xxxvi1 31, 1 1 2, 1 2 1 , 148
xxx, xii, 1 52, 181-184, 240, 242; Fourth
Shneyerson, Grigori Mikhailovich, 34n
Quartet, 1 57; Fourth Symphony, xxx,
Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 60, 212n
xxxix, 23, 39, 1 19, 1 55, 1 58, 2 1 2; From
Sholom Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), 72
Jewish Folk Poetry Uewish Cycle), xi,
Shostakovich, Boleslav, grandfather of Dmi-
xxxvii, 1 57, 274; "Funeral March in
tri, xxi
·
Memory of the Victims of the Revolution,"
Shostakovich, Dmitri:
xxii, 7; The Gamblers, 222-223; The Gold
Biography: birth, xx; childhood and earen Age (ballet), 228n; The Gypsies, 66; ly life, xxi-xxiii, 4-1 1 , 1 3-16; composing
Hamlet, music for, 83; Katerina lzmailova
techniques in old age, 228; death, xviii, xii;
(second version of Lady Macbeth), xxviii,
end of his life, xi-xii; family, xxi, 5-8; and
xxxix, 19, 43, 107, 1 1 1 , 1 54; King Lear,
films, 1 48-1 51; as formalist conspirator,
music for, 84n; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
145-147; later years, xxxvii-xli; marriages,
District, xii, xxvii-xxix, 1 6n, 1 8-19, 36,
xxx, xxxvii, xi; meets Stalin, 254, 256,
82, 85n, 98, 106-108, 1 10-1 1 2, 1 1 4, 1 1 9,
260-263; and national anthem, 256-264;
1 56, 1 8 1 , 200, 206, 267-268; "Luminary,"
obituaries, xix-xx, xii; Pravda attacks him,
xxxxin; "March of the Soviet Police,"
1 1 3-1 1 5, 1 19; see also Pravda; Stalin's rexxxixn, 179; "McPherson Before Execulationship with him, xxviii-xxxi, xxxiii, tion," 1 4; Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
xxxvi, xxxvii, 140-1 42, 147-1 50, 197, 198,
edited, 226-227, 229-234, 240; Mus256; in Turkey, 1 1 2-1 13, 147-148; in sorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, or
United States, xxxvii-xxxviii, 147-148,
chestration, 108n, 1 82, 235, 240; Ninth
169, 198
Symphony, xxxvi, 22n, 140-142, 1 46, 1 53;
Ideas and Opinions: childhood, 6, 8-9,
The Nose, xxvii-xxviii, 1 8, 19, 43, 78, 82,
240; communal apartments, 91-92; com95, 1 1 1 , 205-208, 238; "Preface to the posers asking for help, 170-171; death, 14-Complete Collection of My Works and a
16, 1 80-1 82, 241 , 243; depression and
Brief Meditation on This Preface,'' xxxix;
anxiety, 1 1 6-1 1 9; eternity, 1 59-160; fear,
Rothschild's Violin, Fleishman's work, fin14-16, 1 1 6- 1 1 9; Jews, 1 56-1 58; new life ished, xiii-xiv, 225; Satires, 108n, Second
style in music, 93-94; old age,. 240, 275-
Piano Sonata, 53; Second Symphony, 7,
276; pessimism, 241-243; plagiarism, 1 72-
53n; Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony,
175, 212n; praise and criticism, 236-238;
xxxii-xxxv, 25, 66, 1 36-1 37, 1 39-140,
public appearances, 237; religion and su1 54-1 56, 1 83, 184, 200, 224, 240; Sixth perstition, 187-1 88; rudeness, 23-27; sav
Symphony, 22n, 39n, 1 1 9, 230; The Story
iors of mankind, 1 86-1 87; talking about
of the Priest and His Worker Balda, 1 9;
287
Shostakovich, Dmitri (Continued)
Stalin, Joseph (Continued)
The Story of the Silly Mouse, 19; "A Symxxxviii; mental condition, 192-1 93; and p�onic Dedication to October," xxiv-xxv;
Muradeli, 142-143, 145; musical taste,
'"fea for Two," transcription from You100, 126-1 28, 1 34, 143, 1 90, 232, 241 ; and mans, 53n; Tenth Symphony, xxxviii, 22n,
national anthem, 256-264; "On the Bases
141; Thirteenth Symphony, xilxviin, 151-
of Leninism," 212n; portraits of, 254-255;
1 52, 1 55, 185, 240; Twelfth Symphony, 7,
praise and flattery of, 210-21 1 , 214, 218,
141; vocal suite on poems of Michelangelo,
248, 253-254; public reaction against,
xxxxin
134-135; relationship with Hitler, 1 28,
Shostakovich, Dmitri Boleslavovich, father of
131, 133-1 34, 1 87, 229n; rela�ionship with
Dmitri, xxi, xxii, 5-6, 48-49, 224, 272
S, xxviii-xxxi, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxvii, 140-
Shostakovich, Galya, daughter of Dmitri, xxx
142, 147-1 50, 197, 198, 256, 260-263;
Shostakovich, Irina Supinskaya, wife of Dmi
Rome as influence on, 214; rudeness, 23-
tri, xi
24; and Tukhachevsky, 98, 99, 102-104;
Shostakovich, Margarita Kainova, wife of
Western impressions of, 200
Dmitri, xxxvii
Stanislavski, Konstantin, 90, 92, 1 26
Shostakovich, Maria, sister of Dmitri, xxii,
Stasov, Vladimir Vasilievich, 226, 236, 243
20
Steinberg, Maximilian Oseyevich, xxiii, 28n,
Shostakovich, Maxim, son of Dmitri, xii,
29, 66-68, 121
xxx, xxxim
Steinberg, Nadezhda Nikolaycvna, 66
Shostakovich, Nina Varzar, wife of Dmitri,
Stiedry, Fritz, 1 20
xxx, xxxvii, 8Sn, 108
Stokowski, Leopold, xxiii, xxxiv
Shostakovich, Pyotr, great-grandfather of
Stolypin, Peter Arkadycvich, 1 66
Dmitri, xxi
Strauss, Johann, 63
Shostakovich, Sofia Vasilyevna, mother of
Strauss, Richard: Death and Transfiguration,
Dmitri, xxi-xxii, 5, 6
182; Salome, 63
Shostakovich, Zoya, sister of Dmitri, xxii
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorivich, xxiv, xxxii, 6,
Shvans, Y cvgeny, 190
8, 32-34, 36, 42, 52, 1 30, 1 84, 191, 197-
Simeonov, Konstantin, 107
198, 218, 219; life, 33n; works, S's opinion
Simonov, Konstantin, 210
of, 32-33, 62
Sinyavsky, Andrei, xxxix-xxxx
Strelnikov, Nikolai, 43
Six, Les, xxiv
"Suliko," 143n, 216
Skuratov, Malyuta, 1 24, 192
Szigcti, Joseph, 71
Smolich, Nikola Vasilycvich, 1 1 1n, 207
Sofronitsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 44n,
Taneyev, Sergei lvanovich, 68
57, 72
Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenyevich, 1 Sn
Sokolovsky, Mikhail Vladimirovich, 31
Tchaikovsky, Peter llich, xxxii, 5, 108, 235;
Sollcninsky, Ivan lvanovich, xxxii, 2Sn, 25-
18 12 Overture, 140; Eugene Onegin, 41 ,
26, 38-42, 69, 108, 198, 239n
1 29; The Queen of Spades, 57, 81, 88, 1 1 5,
Sologub, Fyodor Kuzmich, 12-14
182, 237n; Rimsky-Korsakov's hostility to
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr lsaycvich, xxxix, xii,
him, 66-67, 218; Romeo and Juliet, 266;
1 87n, 199n, 212n, 242n
Voyevode, 121
Sovetskaya muzyka, xvii, 56, 1 42n, 1 53
Tinyakov, poet, 176-177
Stalin, Joseph, 1 Sn, 1 8n, 24n, 30n, 37, 56n,
Tishchenko, Boris lvanovich, 218, 274
57, 64, 67, 80n, 81n, 9Sn, 98, 100, 1 12n,
Tolstoi, Alexei, 1 36, 224
152, 153, 155, 1 56, 204, 212; and Boris
Tolstoy, Leo, 10, 269; Anna Karenina,
Godunov, 232-233; Brief Biography, 189;
American film version, 201-202; War and
censorship of writers, 270-272; character
Peace, 8
and temperament, 1 37-1 38, 1 87-194, 198,
torture, 123-1 25