![]() In consultations with Druzhinin during the process of composition, Shostakovich described the first movement of the Sonata as a ‘novella’, perhaps in recognition of its free-flowing three-part form. ![]() On that occasion Druzhinin acknowledged the standing ovation by holding the score aloft. Following his own wishes, the Sonata was first performed by its dedicatee Fyodor Druzhinin, violist of the Beethoven Quartet (in succession to Borisovsky), who played it in private on 25 September, which would have been the composer’s sixty-ninth birthday, and in public on 1 October to a packed audience in the Small Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. He composed the greater part of it in June and July 1975 and died, of lung cancer, on 9 August. The Viola Sonata was Shostakovich’s last work, and there is good reason to suppose that he knew it would be.
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