Taneyev string quartet shostakovich biography
Shostakovich unfinished quartet
In due course his place was taken by distinguished cellist Yevgeny Altman but in the interim Shostakovich, anxious to hear the work performed and perhaps mindful of his own .
Shostakovich nickname
The Taneyev Quartet is now defunct but its recorded cycles of Shostakovich, Beethoven and Schubert contain many fine things, while its Miaskovsky and Taneyev cycles may be called .
Shostakovich works
On today’s date in , Shostakovich’s final string quartet, his Fifteenth, was given its premiere performance by the Taneyev Quartet.
String quartet and orchestra
The instigators were the members of the Taneyev String Quartet, a venerable group formed at the end of World War II in Leningrad.