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Events on Sunday 21 November 1937 1
1937Premiere of Shostakovich's Fifth SymphonyShostakovich returns to official favourDmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 premiered in Leningrad under Yevgeny Mravinsky and received a long ovation. It restored the composer's standing after Pravda had attacked his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in 1936.