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Dmitriy Shostakovich's first composition with an opus number was his orchestral Scherzo in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, completed in the fall of 19191 -- at the age of 12 or 13. However, the composer himself mentioned that he began composing around the time of his first formal music lessons,2 which was at the age of 9.3

1 Elizabeth Wilson, "Childhood and Youth," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 37.

2 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, "Autobiography" ("Avtobiografiya") Sovetskaya Musica, no. 9, 1966, as quoted in Wilson 13.

3 Wilson 8.

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