Shostakovich - "Funeral March in Memory of the Victims of the Revolution" (1918) for piano 

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“One image that was vividly etched in the memories of both Shostakovich’s mother and his aunt Nadezhda was the solemn funeral procession through the streets of Petrograd, on 23 March (5 April) 1917, to lay 184 victims of the February Revolution to rest in a common grave. The Shostakovich family was among the nearly 1 million mourners who made their way to the Field of Mars, singing the revolutionary funeral March, “You Fell a Victim.” When they returned home that evening, young Mitya played “You Fell a Victim” on the piano. Under its influence, he composed his own “Funeral March in Memory of the Victims of the Revolution.” […] A contemporary recalled hearing the young Shostakovich perform his “Funeral March in Memory of the Victims of the Revolution” at a memorial service held at the Stoyunina School ten months later, in January 1918, this time commemorating casualties at the opposite point of the political compass, victims of the Bolsheviks’ bloody dispersal of the duly elected Constituent Assembly. From ‘Shostakovich: A Life by Laurel E. Fay’

I love this piece, cant believe he was only 11

This sounds like the mix of Beethoven and Chopin's Funeral March. Excellent performance!

the fact Shostakovich wrote this when he was 11 with the complete understanding of what had happened is so sad to think about. He was so young and already creating work of such solemnness. But beautiful work, nonetheless.

We can imagine the mourners marching with their heads held high, proud of the fallen heroes for achieving a more just life with the October revolution.

very nice :)

Nice tempo

Rest in Peace Alexei Navalny

It sounds almost identical to Beethoven's Funeral March.