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Symphony No. 5Dmitri Shostakovich

Released
1937
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Modernism
Updated
2026-08-30
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  1. 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.