Talk:Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)

	Classical music portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical music, which aims to improve, expand, copy edit, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that are not covered by other classical music related projects. Please read the guidelines for writing and maintaining articles. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.Classical musicWikipedia:WikiProject Classical musicTemplate:WikiProject Classical musicClassical music articles
	This article is supported by Compositions task force.

Soviet Union Start‑class Low‑importance

	Soviet Union portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Soviet Union, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Soviet UnionWikipedia:WikiProject Soviet UnionTemplate:WikiProject Soviet UnionSoviet Union articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

The Symphony No. 11 in G minor (Opus 103; subtitled The Year 1905) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 to mark the fourtieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1905 ... - oops, that's 52 years, isn't it? Obviously, the work was written for the fourtieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, but deals with the events from the Russian Revolution of 1905. Until anybody can confirm this, I removed the sentence (the grammar was broken anyway). -- FordPrefect42 22:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If, immediately before listening to Symphony No 11, you listen to the jazz standard All Blues, and you have a good ear, you will then recognise variations on All Blues in all four movements of the symphony. This would seem to be incompatible with most of the statements in the article. Attention was drawn to this point in 1958 by a gentleman called Torrie Zito, but news seems to travel slowly in the world of Classical Music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.40.40 (talk) 09:01, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you watch the silent film "The Battleship Potemkin" on hulu.com, which is about the pre-revolution incident in 1905, there are strong theme's from Shastakovich's 11th symphony as background music. The film was made in 1925, yet Shasta's 11th symphony premiered in 1957 - can someone explain the time diff? What was in the film prior to 1957? Is this just more soviet propoganda, trying to make the original film more popular? --74.107.74.39 (talk) 03:03, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]