199; control of culture and creative ans,
Toscanini, Anuro, xxiv, xxviii, xxxv, 24-25
xxx-xxxi, xxxv-xxxvi, 36n, 95-96, 1 1 3-
Trctyakov, Sergei Mikhailovich, 109n
1 14, 120n, 1 39, 146, 147; death, xxxviii,
Trotsky, Leon, 80
192, 194; dislikes Shakespeare, 86-87; and
Truman, Harry S, 57
family relations, 267-268; in film, Unfor
Tsekhanovsky, Mikhail, 19
gettable 1919, 254-255; films controlled,
Tukhachcvsky, Mikhail Nikolaycvich, xxix,
149, 248-252; hatred of Allies, 1 38, 142;
1 Sn, 17, 121, 1 37, 1 5�; death, 1 1 6; mother
"historical resolutions" after World War of, 268; relationship with S, 96-1 OS; in
II, xxxv-xxxvi; Khrushchev denounces,
World War II, 103-104
288
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 266-267
White Sea Canal, 199, 202
Turkey, S in 1 1 2-1 1 3, 147-148
Willkie, Wendell, 1 37
Tuskiya, Iona, 259, 263
Wood, Sir Henry Joseph, xxxiv
Tynyanov, Yuri, Lieutenant Kije, 21 1
World War II, 103-104, 134-136, 1 55, 1 56,
Tyshler, Alexander Grigoryevich, 131
229; Stalin's hatred of Allies, 1 38, 142
Ukraine, blind folk singers, 214-215
Yagodkin, Vladimir, xx
United States, 151; radio broadcasts in Rus
Y akobson, Leonid V eniaminovich, 228n
sian, 185n; S in, xxxvii-xxxviii, 147-148,
Y arustovsky, Boris Mikhailovich, 34n
1 69, 1 98; S's attitude toward, xxxviii; S's
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, xxxviin, xxxviii, 1 52,
music in, xxxiv-xxxv
1 85, 203; "Babi Yar," t 5 t n , 1 58-1 59, 185
Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 210
Vasilycva, Raya, 151
Yudina, Maria Veniaminovna, 44n, 51-58,
Verdi, Giuseppe, Otello, 1 1 5, 182
72, 188, 193-195
Vishinsky, Andrei Yanuaryevich, 133-1 34
yurodiuy, xxv-xxvii, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxx, 22,
Vishnevskaya, Galina Pavlovna, 108n
55, 192, 194, 233, 235
Volkov, Solomon, associated with S, xii-xviii
Yuvachev, see Karms
Volynsky, Akim Lvovich (Flekser), 10- 1 1 ;
memorial service for, 1 1-14
Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich, t8n, 19, 179,
Voronsky, Alexander Konstantinovich, 189-
206, 264-265
190
Zaslavsky, David Iosifovich, 1 1 3-114
Voroshilov, Kliment Efremovich, 100
Zhdanov, Andrei Alexandrovich, 56, 100,
Vygodsky, Nikolai, 121
145-147, 1 59, 191, 203, 204, 269-272
Zhilayev, Nikolai Sergeevich, t 7n, 121
Wagner, Richard, 1 30-131, 173, 238; popu
Zhukovsky, Vasili Andreevich, 46
larity in Soviet Union, t 28-t 29, t 34; Ri
Zinoviev, Grigori Evseyevich, 80n, 95
enzi, 129; The Ring of the Nibelung, 128;
Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich, xvii,
The Valkyrie, 63, 1 28, 131-134
xxvi, xxxvi, xxxixn, 9n, 1 3-14, 48, 91, 94,
Wallace, Henry, 202
180, 202-204, 237, 242, 264-267, 269;
Walter, Bruno, xxiii
character and ideas, 14, t 16-1 18, 266-267;
Warsaw, 104
persecuted, 269-272
Weingartner, Felix, 71
289
SOLOMON VOLKOV
Solomon Volkov was born in Leninabad, Central Asia, in 1 944, received his diploma with honors from the Rimsky
Korsakov State Conservatory in 1 967, and continued graduate work in musicology at the Conservatory until 1 97 1 .
His principal research has been in the history and aesthetics of Russian and Soviet music, and in the psychology of musical perception and performance. He published
numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals, wrote a well-received book, Young Composers of Leningrad, in 197 1 , was a senior editor of Sovetskaya muzyka, the journal of the Composers' Union and the Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R., and was the artistic director of the Experimental Studio of Chamber Opera. He became a member of the Composers' Union in 1 972.
Mr. Volkov came to the United States in June 1 976.
Since then he has been a Research Associate at the Russian Institute of Columbia University in New York City. In addition to preparing Testimony for publication, he has published articles on various musical subjects in The New York Times, The New Republic, Musical America, The Musical Qµarterly, and other periodicals in the
-µnited States and Europe. He has presented papers at La Biennale in Venice and at the Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society in Berkeley, California.
He and his wife, Marianna Volkov, a pianist and photographer, live in New York.
T H E M E M O I R S O F
DMITRI
SHOSTAKOVICH
Recipient of an ASCAPIDeems Taylor Award in 1980
"An extremely powerful , gri m . gripping book and one that will set the record traight
. . . These are not the remarks of a man who was flung out of the party. A ide from two collisions with the authorities, Shostakovich was in favor until the very end . The memoirs are a serious indictment of past and present Russia, as well as the recollections of a life apparently spent in fear and despair .. . Obviously the final text, with its attack on the Stalin period and the Soviet musical bureaucracy, could not be published in the Soviet Union . Mr. Volkov ' took measures' to get the manuscript to the We t. Sho takovich stipulated that the book not be published until after hi death . . .'Te timony ' is indeed the testimony of a major creator in music . B ut it is much more than that. The book could have been subtitled 'The Life of the Russian Intellectual Under Stalin'."
-Harold C . Schonberg, New York Times Book Review
"Pithy, lean , incisive, and blunt memoirs . . . contain a scathing indictment of the conditions under which artists struggle in the Soviet Union , yesterday and today . "
-Christian Science Monitor
"An unexampled picture of some fifty-five years of Soviet musical life . . . . Now that the memoirs have been published, not one episode of the composer's career can be viewed in the same l ight as before, not one work of music heard in the same way ."
-Patricia Blake, Time
"The man and musician whose per onality beams from these pages is full of the contradictions of flesh and blood and the will to survive . Nobody who gets to know Shostakovich through his Testimony will ever again hear his music in the old naive way . "
-Karen Monson . Chicago Sun-Times
" No single ac.count portrays so nakedly , so brutal ly, the crushing hand of Stal in on Russia's cultural and
life as that of Shostakovich in Testimony. Thi is a gripping, even by one of the world' great compo ers to lay bare the torment of his times . "
-Harrison Salisbury
"Testimony is a book of immen5e power, full of bitterness and heroism, and I do not know of a musician who will not read it with compassion and admiration . These memoirs have afforded me an insight into Shostakovich's thoughts which would otherwise have been quite impossible . "
-Andre Previn
"The book of th·e· year. "
-The Times
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