censorship
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The restless, relentless, mechanical and thunderous beat goes on as the left hand begins to pound the piano. The right hand follows suite and thus begins one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most well known compositions- his Prelude in G Minor from Études-Tableaux Op. 39 No. 6. While Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor seems to be glorious
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The year is 1501. That was the fateful year that sealed the future of Music as the world knew it. Till 1501 to the present day, music was the last way of expression that was not commercialized, however the first printing and publishing of the first music work that year by Ottaviano de Petrucci is
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Symphony of Censorship When Dmitri Shostakovich premiered Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934, its bold orchestration and raw emotional intensity shocked and thrilled Soviet audiences—until it terrified the regime. The modernist and sexually charged opera where Shostakovich intended to show the patriarchal society in which we live in, where through frustration and years of abuse
