| Uniform title | Correspondence. Selections. English |
| Contents |
War and separation, 1941-1945 -- Zhdanovshchina and after, 1946-1953 -- Thaw, 1954-1959 -- Public face, private feelings, 1960-1966 -- Failing health, 1967-1969 -- Intimations of mortality, 1970-1975 -- Satirical songs by Isaak Glikman -- On the article 'Muddle Instead of Music', and other matters. |
| Abstract |
Shostakovich wrote regularly to his close friend Isaak Glikman during their forty-year relationship from the early 1930s to the composer's death in 1975. The core of this volume is a collection of 288 of these letters starting in 1941, when both correspondents became wartime evacuees from their home town of Leningrad. Earlier letters were destroyed during the siege of the city; however, the chronological gap is bridged by Glikman's detailed account, seen very much from the inside, of the main events in the composer's life during the turbulent 1930s, the height of Stalin's terror. This book was first published in Russian as Letters to a Friend in 1993. This is its first appearance in English. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-324) and index. |
| Language | Translation of Pisʹma k drugu first published by DSCH Publishers, Moscow and Kompozitor Publishers, St. Petersburg, 1993. |
| LCCN | 2001042295 |
| ISBN | 0801439795 (cloth) |
