See Also: Shostakovich, Dimitri(dictionary)
Shostakovich, Dmitry (Dmitriyevich)(encyclopedia)
Mendeleeff, Dimitri(medicine)
Romanowsky, Dimitri(medicine)
Sturge-Weber-Dimitri syndrome(medicine)

Shostakovich, Dimitri (oh)



(1906-75) a Russian composer whose best-known works are his symphonies and his opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Soviet government sometimes disapproved of his music because they considered that it did not express Soviet principles.