The conductor
by Sarah Quigley
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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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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| Edition | Availability |
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Originally published: 2012.
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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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