Olga Digonskaya (The Glinka Museum of Music Culture
and the Shostakovich Archive)
On a “Marginal” Work by Shostakovich: Re-dating and a Change of Context
On a “Marginal” Work by Shostakovich: Re-dating and a Change of Context
The main topic of this paper is the
Solemn Campaign March by Shostakovich, published in the New Collected Edition
and dated 1941.
Extant materials, including the
sketch for the March, newly found and attributed by me, requires us change the
date to 1939. This would prompt us to place the March into the “Finnish
context”, which would mean that the Suite on Finnish Folk Songs was not the
only piece commissioned from Shostakovich in anticipation of the Soviet-Finnish
War of 1939-1940.
