Dmitri Sostaković Is 120 Years Old, and We're Telling You Why He's Definitely a "Leaf" by Separating the Composers From "Jews" and "Lis"

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On September 25, 1906, Dmitri Šostaković, probably the most famous Soviet composer, was born, forced to cooperate with the State while suffering from a campaign against "formalism," and for many, he embodies the fate of an intellectual humanitarianist in a totalitarian state, but the creative biography of Sostaković is certainly not exhausted by a complex relationship with power. At the request of Meduza, music critic Stepan Furin describes how …