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Shostakovich, Dimitri
     
Shostakovich, Dimitri
(1906-75) a Russian composer whose best-known works are his symphonies and his opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Soviet government sometimes disapproved of his music because they considered that it did not express Soviet principles.
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