POPOVICH / (WS)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. Symphony No. 6 is in three movements and is approximately 30 minutes in length: Largo, Allegro, Presto. The Sixth Symphony is unusual in structure, beginning with a long and introspective slow movement, followed by two short movements: a scherzo and a "full-blooded and debauched music-hall galop".