Dec-21-2007, 03:58
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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Originally Posted by CampOfTheSaints
I guess I'd have to say mine is Shostakovich's 8th. There is really nothing like it by any other composer, living, or dead. It is my understanding that he wrote it after visiting the bombed out ruins of Dresden after the war, but I have also read that he had the outline for it well before the start of the war. Some say it is a musical protest against war, some say against Nazism, some say against Communism, and some say it is a protest against all three.
Either way, it is some of the most powerful, emotional music ever written by a composer. If you have yet to hear it, do yourself a favor, and give it a listen, you will never be the same after you have heard this wonderful, but sad composition. 
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I am going to check this one out tomorrow! 
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