Category:Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich
	Soviet composer and pianist
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Date of birth	12 September 1906 (in Julian calendar); Saint Petersburg (Russian Empire)
Date of death	9 August 1975; Moscow (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	lung cancer;
Place of burial	Novodevichy Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Russian Empire; Soviet Union;
Educated at	Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1919, 1925);
Occupation	composer; pianist; politician; university teacher; writer;
Employer	Meyerhold State Theatre; Workers' Youth Theatre (1930, 1933); Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1937); Moscow Conservatory (1943, 1948);
Member of	Union of Soviet Composers; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1965); Academy of Arts of the GDR (1956); National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1968); Soviet Peace Committee (1949); Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1954); Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia (1956);
Member of political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1960);
Position held	member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union;
Child	Maxim Shostakovich;
Notable work	Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 10; Symphony No. 12; Symphony No. 7;
Award received	State Stalin Prize (1941); USSR State Prize (1968); Order of Lenin (28 December 1946); Hero of Socialist Labour (24 September 1966); Order of the October Revolution (2 July 1971); People's Artist of the USSR (1954); Star of People's Friendship (1972); Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (1967); Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1973); Lenin Prize (April 1958, Symphony No. 11); Order of the Red Banner of Labour (23 May 1940); Order of Friendship of Peoples (1972); Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1966); People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947); World Peace Council prizes (1954); Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1942); Order of Lenin (24 September 1956); Order of Lenin (24 September 1966); "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (24 September 1966); State Stalin Prize (1942, Symphony No. 7); State Stalin Prize (1946); State Stalin Prize (1950, The Fall of Berlin); State Stalin Prize (1952); Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1974); Shevchenko National Prize (1976); Wihuri Sibelius Prize (1958);
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Dimitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич, tr. Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič; 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music.