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The conductor

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, 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 conduct a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony - a haunting, defiant new piece, which will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. Eliasberg's musicians are starving, and sca.

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  • "Im Sommer 1941 verlassen die deutschen Soldaten klammheimlich Leningrad. Eine Katastrophe naht: Die Stadt wird belagert, soll dem Erdboden gleichgemacht werden. Der Grossteil der Künstler und Kulturschaffenden wird evakuiert. Bis auf Dmitri Schostakowitsch, den wohl berühmtesten russischen Komponisten. Er bleibt, um seine Stadt zu verteidigen. Doch ein anderer wird zum eigentlichen Helden: Karl Eliasberg, Dirigent eines zweitklassigen Radioorchesters. Hungernd und im Angesicht des Todes führt Eliasberg mit seinem Orchester Schostakowitschs "Siebte Symphonie" auf. - Ein hochmusikalischer, bewegender Roman über zwei beseelte wie getriebene Männer, die der Kälte einen humanen Klang abringen. Die Symphonie des Winters Es ist eine Zeit, in der alle Musik gefriert. Doch im Kopf eines Mannes entsteht eine Symphonie, die den Menschen im belagerten Leningrad Mut und Hoffnung geben kann. Allerdings bedarf es eines todesmutigen Dirigenten, damit das Werk erklingen kann. Ein ergreifender Roman über den Sieg der Kunst über die Barbarei."
  • "June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. The famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, a haunting, defiant new piece that will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines."
  • ""In June 1941, Nazi troops march on Leningrad and surround it. Hitler..ś plan is to shell, bomb, and starve the city into submission. Most of the cultural elite are evacuated early in the siege, but Dmitri Shostakovich, the most famous composer in Russia, stays on to defend his city, digging ditches and fire-watching. At night he composes a new work. But after Shostakovich and his family are forced to evacuate, only Karl Eliasberg - a shy and difficult man, conductor of the second-rate Radio Orchestra - and an assortment of musicians are left behind in Leningrad to face an unendurable winter and start rehearsing the finished score of Shostakovich..ś Leningrad Symphony."--Back cover."
  • "June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, 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 conduct a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony - a haunting, defiant new piece, which will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. Eliasberg's musicians are starving, and sca."@en
  • "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, a haunting, defiant new piece that will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. Eliasberg's musicians are starving and scarcely have the strength to carry their instruments, but for five freezing months, the conductor stubbornly drives them on, depriving those who falter of their bread rations. Slowly the music begins to dissolve the nagging hunger, the exploding streets, the slow deaths . . . but at what cost' Eliasberg's relationships are strained, obsession takes hold and his orchestra grows weaker. Soon, they are struggling not just to perform but to stay alive."@en
  • "The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence...and for one moment, as the barrage of shell and artillery pauses, music washes over the city of Leningrad. The defiant symphony of Leningrad's famous son, the composer Shostakovich, infiltrates ruined homes and businesses, echoing in the empty streets, and, perhaps, even beyond the besieged walls to the very heart of the German forces. But this is not the story of Shostakovich. This is the story of a man caught in the white heat of obsession. A man who inspired an entire city, much less a ragged orchestra of half-starved musicians, to an act of resistance and hope in a time of war."@en

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Text"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "New Zealand fiction"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
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  • "The conductor"
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  • "The Conductor"
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  • "La symphonie de Leningrad : roman"
  • "Sinfonia Leningrado"
  • "Sinfonia Leningrado"@it
  • "Der Dirigent Roman"
  • "Der Dirigent : Roman"

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