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When Shostakovich was first opera "The Nose", a satire on the Russian bureaucracy, which contains the first long drum solo of European music and the composers of today are like Gyorgy Ligeti admiration expressed after 16 performances disappeared from the stage, which began composer with his second opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a work which should make for a lot of turmoil. The first performance on 22 January 1934 in Leningrad, was a tremendous success. Two days later, the second was held in Moscow.