Fighting for his life
Does "Shostakovich was fighting for his life" mean "Shostakovich by making the Fifth symphony was putting his life in danger"?
Context:
What made the Fifth symphony so highly charged with subversive meaning was not so much the coded messages (which no doubt went by largely unnoticed) as the public’s awareness that, in composing that symphony. . . . Shostakovich was fighting for his life.
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I don't know anything about Shostakovich's situation, but the plain meaning is that something or someone was trying to kill him, literally or figuratively, and he created the symphony to prevent that.
- I don't know anything about Shostakovich's situation, but the plain meaning is that something or someone was trying to kill him, literally or figuratively, and he created the symphony to prevent that.
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I don't know anything about Shostakovich's situation, but the plain meaning is that something or someone was trying to kill him, literally or figuratively, and he created the symphony to prevent that.
0cattttShostakovich was fighting for his life
Shostakovich was doing all he could to get back into the good graces of the authoritarian government of the Soviet Union.
Stalin had attended an opera written by Shostakovich which he did not like at all, and that led to widespread vicious criticism. It was said that Shostakovich was writing music that wa
0cattttShostakovich by making the Fifth symphony
Composing or writing are the usual choices in that context.
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