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Arts unravelled: The secret signals in Shostakovich’s symphonies
The composer Dmitri Shostakovich wears glasses and looks off to his right
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Arts unravelled: The secret signals in Shostakovich’s symphonies

How Dmitri Shostakovich’s compositions included secret signals, from his own musical motif to dissent against Josef Stalin’s government.

Arts unravelled: Why is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony so significant?
Painting of Beethoven
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Arts unravelled: Why is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony so significant?

Music professor Laura Tunbridge explains when and why Beethoven wrote his most famous masterpiece, the Symphony No.9 with its celebrated ‘Ode to Joy’.