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.
Beethoven number 1 :)
He wrote about Allie'e baseball mitt. "Anyway, that's what I wrote Stradlater's composition about. Old Allie's baseball mitt."
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10 years old he wrote his first song.
He was 13, it was the first song he ever wrote, he wrote it for his Girlfriend caitlin beadles :)
How old was he when he wrote his first composition = Wie alt war er als er seine erste Komposition schrieb
"How old was he when he wrote his first composition?" in English is Quanto vecchio era quando ha scritto la sua prima composizione? in Italian.
Dmitri Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906 and died on August 9, 1975. Dmitri Shostakovich would have been 68 years old at the time of death or 108 years old today.
Dmitri Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975 at the age of 68.
"¿Cuántos años tuvo cuando escribió su primer composición?"
Beethoven number 1 :)
quel âge avait-il quand il a écrit sa première composition ? -
Qual era sua idade quando escreveu sua primeira composição ?
He wrote about Allie'e baseball mitt. "Anyway, that's what I wrote Stradlater's composition about. Old Allie's baseball mitt."
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Mary Shelley was 20 years old when she wrote her first book, "Frankenstein".
he was 56 wrote his first book