Dimitri Dimitri Shostakovich (Russian: дмитрйдмитррррреви) Graduated from piano and composition in 1923 and 1925 respectively, and became famous for playing symphony no 1. 1927 Chopin piano competition won the prize; The Seventh Symphony, written in the Great Patriotic War, is world-renowned; 1957 and 1962 were controversial because of the symphony 10 and 13. 1960 to join the Soviet * * * production party; 1975 died in Moscow.