Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich

Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich (Russian: Галина Дмитриевна Шостакович; born in Leningrad on 30 May 1936) is a Russian trained pianist and biologist.

Early life

She is the sister of Maxim Shostakovich (b. 1938) and the first child of Dmitri Shostakovich and physicist Nina Vasilyevna Varzar, who married on 19 May 1933.

She received early training on the piano from her father. He dedicated his Op. 69 "Children's Notebook" to her for Galina's birthday on 30 May 1945. She wanted to become a ballerina. She learned several languages. At age 11 her French already was as good as her Russian.[1] She started studying composition with her father at an early age. Soon after the death of her mother Nina Vasilyevna Varzar (born in 1909) on December 4, 1954, Galina Shostakovich enrolled in Biology at the Moscow University where she graduated in 1959. In 1959 she married Yevgeniy Borisovich Chukovsky (b. 1938), a cinematographer and cameraman. He was the grandson of author and children's poet Korney Chukovsky and nephew of Lidiya Chukovskaya.[2]

In a letter to his daughter on August 6, 1958, her father told her: "...Time goes by. And love in life - this is the most important thing. Besides this, it is very serious and responsible. There should always be a harmonious combination of the senses and the intellect. I really want to see your life was good, so that you are always healthy and happy. Kiss you. Dad."[3] Her first son Andrei was born in August 1960 and her second son Nikolai in January 1962.[4]

Career

She appears as herself in the documentary from 1997 The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin by Larry Weinstein released on May 10, 2003.

References
  1. правды», Анастасия ПЛЕШАКОВА | Сайт «Комсомольской (30 May 2013). "В дачном поселке Жуковка по Рублевскому шоссе первым бассейн построил Ростропович".
  2. Ivashkin, Alexander; Kirkman, Andrew. Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film. Ashgate. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-4094-3937-0.
  3. "Дмитрий Шостакович Биография".
  4. Wilson, Elisabeth (2006). Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. Princeton University Press. p. 600. ISBN 9780691128863.


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