Shostakovich: The Quartets in Context

February 21-22, 2011

This guide was created to accompany Shostakovich: The Quartets in Context, a symposium held at the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign on February 21-22, 2011. Leading scholars of Russian music spoke on Shostakovich and the string quartets performed by the Pacifica Quartet throughout the Krannert Center season. Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley) at Krannert Center, delivered the keynote address. See the program poster.

This guide is intended to supply some general bibliographic information along with some interesting documentation from Shostakovich's life.  It is no way intended to be a comprehensive guide to the materials published about the composer.  It will provide the user with some direction for further research.