Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, titled The Year 1917, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1961. He dedicated it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin. Although the performance on 1 October 1961, by
Shostakovich in 1958
Locomotive of Lenin’s train, on which he arrived at Finland Station, Petrograd in April, 1917
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14, subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestr
Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)
…called a "folk heroic epic", as opposed to the Eleventh, a "folk music drama".) The Twelfth is also unlike its other direct ancestor, the experimental Second Symphony, in being extremely traditional, with the fast opening movement laid out along academically correct lines such as Myaskovsky and his teacher Glazunov…
Shostakovich in 1925