Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

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Label

Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Title remainder

Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Statement of responsibility

M.T. Anderson

Title variation

Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Creator

• Anderson, M. T

Author

• Anderson, M. T

Subject

• 1939 - 1945
• Composers
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war
• Biography
• Biographies
• Music and war
• History
• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Juvenile literature
• Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
• Young adult literature
• Biographies
• Music -- Psychological aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia
• Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944
• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
• Music -- Psychological aspects
• Juvenile works
• Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
• Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Juvenile literature
• Morale
• Composers -- Russia -- Biography

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Biographies
• Juvenile works
• Biography
• Young adult literature
• History

Language

eng

Summary

In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm. They ate family pets and -- eventually -- one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens -- the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power and layered meaning of music in beleaguered lives

Awards note

• New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015
• National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature, 2015
• YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2016
• Booklist Editor's Choice/Books for Youth, 2015; School Library Journal Best Books, 2015; Notable Chuldren's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies, 2016; Yalsa Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, 2016.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

• 780.92
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3930.S4995

LC item number

A53 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent