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Post Subject: Coercion in DSCH orchestral worksPosted by JANDL100 on: 10/24/2007
Yes, of course, there is much submission to the powers that were in many DSCH orchestral works - his life, and the lives of his family were literally at stake, after all. Stalin was not a nice or forgiving man. But I don't hear any 'coercion' or submission to the Soviet policy of lowest-common-denominator art in symphonies 6 8 9 10 13 14 or the violin or cello concertos. Masterpieces all, in my opinion.
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