Dmitri Shostakovich

Known For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-09-25

Deathday

1975-08-09 (68 years old)

Birth Place

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Religion

Roman Catholic

Relationships

Nina Varzar (1932 - 1935)

Spouse

Nina Varzar

Children

Galina Dmitrievna Shostakovich, Maxim Shostakovich

Father

Dmitry Shostakovich

Citizenships

Russian Empire, Soviet Union

Also Known As

Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič, Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch, Дзмітрый Дзмітрыевіч Шастаковіч, Д. Шостакович

Awards

State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, People's Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR, Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR, Wihuri Sibelius Prize, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", World Peace Council prizes, Shevchenko National Prize, Stalin Prize, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Friendship of Peoples, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Star of People's Friendship, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin, Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Lenin Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR