Shostakovich, Dmitri - Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva

The “Six Lieder of Marina Tsvetayeva, Op. 143” were composed in 1973. The poetess Marina Tsvetayeva was a piano pupil of Anton Rubinstein and belongs – as Detlef Gojowy once wrote – “with her moving fate – emigration, non-conformity in emigration, return to the Soviet Russia, execution of her husband, camp incarceration of her daughter, suicide after practical prohibition of her profession, to the tragic cases and mortgages of Russian cultural history.” Her works were received only very hesitantly in the USSR during the time of Stalin. The setting of her poetry by Shostakovich was regarded and understood as a confession.





Translator: Jörg Morgener