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1906 CE - 1975 CE: Life of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
1906 CE: Dmitriyevich Shostakovich is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1925 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich graduates from the Petrograd Conservatory.
1926 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony premieres in Leningrad.
1932 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich marries Nina Varzar.
1934 CE: Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
1936 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich's music is denounced in the Soviet state newspaper Pravda.
1940 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Quintet wins the Stalin Prize.
1948 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich falls out of favour with the Soviet regimewhen his music is criticised for its "formalism".
1957 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich is appointed secretary of the all-powerful Union of Soviet Composers.
1966 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich is made a Hero of Socialist Labour and he receives the Order of Lenin.
1975 CE: Dmitri Shostakovich dies of a heart attack in Moscow.