Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues

Contexts, Style, Performance

• Author(s): Mark Mazullo,
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Pages: 286
• ISBN_13: 9780300149432
  ISBN_10: 0300149433
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Individual Composer & Musician , Music / Genres & Styles / Classical , Music / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard ,

Description:... This is the first book-length study of Shostakovich’s Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for piano, Opus 87. Mark Mazullo explains the cultural context in which Shostakovich composed, relates the cycle to piano works (by Bach, Hindemith, and others), and offers individual commentaries on each of the Preludes and Fugues.