The conductor

Description:

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. Most of the cultural elite escape, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in Russian history, the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to prepare for the task of a lifetime: he is to organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony.

subjects: Fiction,  Romans, nouvelles,  Histoire,  Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921,  History,  Fiction, historical,  Saint petersburg (russia), fiction,  Fiction, biographical,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975),  Dmitri Dmitriévitch Chostakovitch (1906-1975),  Karl Ėliasberg

Places: Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie),  Saint Petersburg (Russia),  Russia (Federation),  Saint Petersburg

Times: Siege, 1941-1944,  1941-1944 (Siège)