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Solomon Volkov


Born
in Russian Federation
April 17, 1944


Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov (born 17 April 1944 in Uroteppa, Tadzhik SSR) is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for Testimony, which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. He claimed that the book was the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to himself.

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“O título [da peça Vladimir Maiakóvski, do autor de mesmo nome] escondia uma revelação brilhantemente simples, a de que o poeta não é o autor, mas o objeto da poesia lírica, dirigindo-se ao mundo na primeira pessoa. O título designava não o autor, mas o conteúdo.
Boris Pasternak”
Solomon Volkov, St. Petersburg: A Cultural History

“Young Shostakovich-Mitya-was nine, relatively old, when he began
piano lessons. His first instructor was his mother, who, when she saw his rapid progress, took him to a piano teacher. The following conversation was a favorite family story:
"I've brought you a marvelous pupil!"
"All mothers have marvelous children...."
Within two years he played all the preludes and fugues in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. It was clear that he was exceptionally gifted.”
Solomon Volkov, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”
Solomon Volkov, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

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