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The conductor

Quigley, Sarah. (Author).

Summary: June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. The famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, a haunting, defiant new piece that will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. -- NoveList.

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  • ISBN: 9781443413091 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1443413097
  • Physical Description: print
    303 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2012, c2011.

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Subject: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich -- 1906-1975 -- Fiction
Ėliasberg, Karl -- Fiction
Conductors (Music) -- Fiction
Symphonies -- Fiction
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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