Who was the musician that turned Blok's poem "The Twelve" into a cantata?
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Prokofiev
Answer
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer who turned the poem "The Twelve" by Aleksandr Blok into a cantata. The poem is about the Russian Revolution, and the cantata is a musical representation of the poem. It is a powerful and moving piece of music that captures the essence of the Russian Revolution.
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