Beschreibung
| Besetzung: | Blasorchester |
| Komponist: | Dmitri Schostakowitsch |
| Arrangeur: | Timothy Rhea |
| Grad:Schwierigkeitsgrad: | 3 (mittelschwer bis schwer / Mittelstufe) |
| Genre: | Konzertwerk |
| Dauer: | 02:20 |
| Verlag: | TRN Music Publisher Inc. |
| Kategorie: | Konzertwerke |
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the Fire of Eternal Glory in 1960. Representatives of the city of Novorossiisk applied to the RSFSR Union of Composers to commission a pice of musc for the city's war memorial. This is what Shostakovich said about it 'The defenders of Novorossiisk covered themselves with glory during the Great Patriotic War and I was honored to compose music for the The Fire of Eternal Glory burning at the memorial in Heroes Square. The music is at first heroic, with a tinge of sorrow, but gradually becomes elated and loses its dark coloring'. A recording plays the piece every hour by the clock over the Fire of Eternal Glory in Novorossiisk Heroes Square. The composer visited the city in March 1961. 'I was deeply moved by what I witnessed in Heroes Square', Dmitri Shostakovich said later. 'I came here to listen to the chimes many times and each time experienced an inner thrill at seeing people pass by, stop at the moment the clock played the chimes, and gaze in silence at the Fire of Eternal Glory, the memorial to the city's defenders. I was overjoyed to see the impression my music extered.'
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