Artist
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich appears once in our Modernism list, placing as high as No. 8. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Modernism
- Year
- 1937
- Highest placing
- No. 8 in Modernism
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Symphony No. 5
1937
Ranked No. 8 in Modernism
Written under real threat of arrest and subtitled, by someone, a Soviet artist's reply to just criticism. Whether the triumphant ending is sincere is the most consequential unanswered question in music.