person
Shostakovsky
Mr. Shostakovsky
also: г. Шостаковский
An invented performer on the squib's program, billed to play an 'overture' on the theme of a maudlin popular song about a dead man.
Reading notes
- Departed from Moscow: §12 Mr. Shostakovsky
An invented performer billed to play an 'overture' on the theme of a maudlin popular song about a dead man, continuing the program's mismatch of grandiose musical terms and trivial content.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 22–23 February 1887. Moscow. §7 doesn't mention Shostakovsky
Shostakovsky, evidently a drinking companion or byword associated with Nikolai's earlier dissolute habits; that Nikolai no longer brings him up is cited, along with his reduced drinking, as a further sign of his (unstable) reform.