This composer who was called "genius" by Dmitry Shostakovich, the author
of 11 symphonies, an Artist who had a critical view on the surrounding
reality and who never searched for compromises for his career's sake, had
to endure a double persecution in and after his life.
First, he had been expelled from the Moscow Conservatory after the WW-2 and he could never more find a job because his music was blamed as "wrong" by the Communist Party officials. Second, he had been slandered by the KGB, and then his music and his name fell victim of the meticulous silencing and slandering campaign waged for many years by influential members of the liberally thinking camp looking for revenge on the "Evil Genius". This web site makes use of the information freedom to restore the justice and to render the music of Alexander L. Lokshin accessible to everybody. |