Symphony No. 7
Sign in to saveAlso known as Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” in C Major, Op. 60, Leningrad, Symphony No. 7 in C major
symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich
Key facts
- Key
- C major
- Composed
- December 1941
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- symphony
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Duration
- 80
- Tonality
- C major
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- date of first performance
- 1942-03-05
- form of creative work
- symphony
- opus number
- 60
- location of creation
- Samara
- inception
- 1941-00-00
- number of parts of this work
- 4
- orchestration
- 3(afl:pic)2+ca.3(Ebcl)+bcl.2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.perc.xyl/2hp.pf/str; additional brass 4330
- instrumentation
- symphony orchestra
- publication date
- 1941-12-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, nicknamed the Leningrad Symphony, was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara (then known as Kuybyshev) in December 1941, and premiered in that city on March 5, 1942. At first dedicated to Lenin, it was eventually submitted in honor of the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played under dire circumstances on August 9, 1942, nearly a year into the siege by German forces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Symphony No. 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.