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Shostakovich dies in Moscow at 68 amid world tributes
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in Moscow over the weekend from a heart attack, just before turning 69 next month. tributes poured in from Lennox Berkeley and Leonard Bernstein, while Tass gave a terse notice ignored by many Russians. He was famed for polyphonic mastery across symphonies operas and films, with Kremlin critics marked through his career.
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