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An edition of The conductor (2012)

The conductor

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The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence ... and for one moment, as the barrage of shell and artillery pauses, music washes over the city of Leningrad. The defiant symphony of Leningrad's famous son, the composer Shostakovich, infiltrates ruined homes and businesses, echoing in the empty streets, and, perhaps, even beyond the besieged walls to the very heart of the German forces. But this is not the story of Shostakovich. This is the story of a man caught in the white heat of obsession. A man who inspired an entire city, much less a ragged orchestra of half-starved musicians, to an act of resistance and hope in a time of war.

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Head of Zeus
Language
English
Pages
303

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Subjects

Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921, History, Fiction, historical, Saint petersburg (russia), fiction, Fiction, biographical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general

People

Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975), Dmitri Dmitriévitch Chostakovitch (1906-1975), Karl Ėliasberg

Places

Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Russia (Federation), Saint Petersburg

Times

Siege, 1941-1944, 1941-1944 (Siège)
Edition Availability
Cover of: Conductor
Conductor
2017, Random House New Zealand
in English
Cover of: The Conductor
The Conductor
2014-06-17, Harper Perennial
Cover of: The conductor
The conductor
2013, Head of Zeus
in English
Cover of: The conductor
The conductor
2012
in English
Cover of: The conductor
The conductor
2012, Head of Zeus
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: 2012.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.92
Library of Congress
PR9639.3.Q54

The Physical Object

Pagination
303 pages
Number of pages
303

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32088419M
Internet Archive
conductor0000quig_x1m7
ISBN 10
1908800429
ISBN 13
9781908800428
OCLC/WorldCat
811738297

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Work Description

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. Most of the cultural elite escape, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in Russian history, the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to prepare for the task of a lifetime: he is to organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony.

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