Quotes About Volkov

up to fifty thousand pounds for Miller's death."     VOLKOV OBVIOUSLY CALLED the Broker about it, too, because it wasn't much more

This interpretation became popular many decades later, after the publication of Solomon Volkov's supposed memoirs of Shostakovich, Testimony. In that book, Volkov has Shostakovich say, The Seventh Symphony had been planned before the war and consequently it simply cannot be seen as a reaction to Hitler's attack.

There are several problems with this passage in the Volkov memoir, though. For one thing, only one page earlier, Volkov has Shostakovich say the opposite: "I wrote my Seventh Symphony, the 'Leningrad,' very quickly. I couldn't not write it. War was all around. . . .