Violin Sonata (Shostakovich) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dmitri Shostakovich composed Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 134 in the autumn of 1968 in Moscow, completing it October 23. It is set in three movements and lasts approximately 31 minutes. Op. 134, along with The Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 77 and Violin Concerto No. 2 Op. 129 is dedicated to the violinist David Oistrakh, who premiered the work May 3, 1969 in the Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession. A movement is a section, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena."