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A fact from Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that the Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, Dmitri Shostakovich's last vocal work, are based on texts by "one of the most distasteful figures in Russian literature"? Source: "How are we to understand the Four Poems of Captain Lebyadkin in this context? ... Captain Lebyadkin from Dostoyevsky's novel [Demons] is one of the most distasteful figures in Russian literature, always drunk, brutal, cunning, and calculating..." ("Between reality and transcendence: Shostakovich's songs" by Dorothea Redepenning; in Shostakovich Studies, p. 227
Comment: QPQ to come later. I have at least one more ALT to add, but I'm traveling at the moment and away from my books. Will return to tie off loose ends on Sunday night.
ALT1: That the hall for the 1975 premiere of the Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin by Dmitri Shostakovich was barely half filled? ("Потому и возникло некоторое охлаждение, спад интереса к Шостаковичу. Я никогда не забуду своего присутствия на последнем концерте, где он был «живьем», — весной 1975 года, премьера «Стихотворений капитана Лебядкина». Зал был неполным. Шостакович, первое исполнение, и неполный Малый зал консерватории! Было какое-то общее впечатление усталости от Шостаковича. Он как бы холодно-объектив интересовать. Но горячего интереса в то время не было. Было у меня, например, ощущение, что все это — усталое, написанное человеком, который весь — в прошлом, весь относится к другому времени. И мне казалось, что то же ощущали и многие другие. Немногим более половины Малого зала на премьере сочинения — это ужасно! Я помню, после того, как Евгений Нестеренко спел, Шостакович встал, но не поднялся на сцену, а снизу из зала кланялся — а потом повернулся и пошел к выходу. И хотя программа еще не закончилась, ушел с концерта. За ним шла Ирина Антоновна, оглядываясь и виновато улыбаясь. Это было довольно странное впечатление." (in Беседы с Альфредом Шнитке by Alexander Ivashkin, pp. 74–75))