Dmitri Shostakovich

Born: September 12 1906 (Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire). Died: August 09, 1975 (Moscow, USSR). Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Russian / Soviet composer, pianist, musical and public figure, teacher, professor. Father of the conductor and pianist . People's Artist of USSR (1954). Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Lenin Prize (1958), five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1952), the USSR State Prize (1968) and…