During the war, he volunteered for active service but was turned down because of his poor eyesight; but in the 1941 siege of Leningrad by the Nazis, Shostakovich served in the fire brigade before ...
In this short film Howard Goodall looks at how musicians such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Richard ... hope in the midst of the horrifying siege of Leningrad during World War Two.
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