Music
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Studied here
Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre
Studied piano and composition at the Petrograd Conservatory (housed in the rebuilt Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre) from 1919, graduating in composition in 1925; later taught there.
Performed here
Mariinsky Theatre
Ballets The Golden Age (1930) and The Bolt (1931) were premiered at the Mariinsky (then State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet).
Created here
Shostakovich Philharmonia Grand Hall
His Seventh Symphony, dedicated to Leningrad, received its historic besieged-city performance here on August 9, 1942. ([philharmonia.spb.ru](https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/news/feed/?id=179060&utm_source=openai))
Lived here
Shostakovich's Apartment in the Benois House
He lived here from 1937 to 1941 and began composing the Seventh Symphony in the apartment. ([philharmonia.spb.ru](https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/afisha/7symphony/details/detail/479423/?utm_source=openai))
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