What was the title of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony?
The Heroic
The Tragic
Babi Yar
The Revolutionary
Answer
Shostakovich's 13th Symphony is titled "Babi Yar". It was subject to state interventions due to its controversial content, which included a setting of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar.
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