Shostakovich Companion, Hardcover by Mishra, Michael, ISBN 031330503X, ISBN-13 9780313305030, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Adopting a "two-books-in-one" format. The Shostakovich Companion combines a full-length, single-author examination of the life and compositional evolution of the Soviet Union's most famous composer; and a symposium in which a variety of analytical techniques is applied to selected Shostakovich works and genres. This is the first comprehensive English-languag in twenty-five years in which the primary emphasis is on musical issues, and the secondary emphasis is on the biographical and much-debated political issues.