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Dmitry Shostakovich's Als - The Pathography On The 30th Anniversary Of His Death

The greatest world symphonist of the 20th century was born in 1906 and has been known as musical genius since his childhood. He was of fragile constitution, a very sensitive, introverted, neurotic, anxious and highly nicotine addicted person. He had a special love-hate relationship with Soviet regime and Stalin particularly. From 1958 he became more and more ill. It started with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly of the right hand. Soon it was accompanied by spastic paresis of his arms (dominantly left), spreading later to lower limbs. This slowly progressive paralytic disorder was probably motor neuron disease amyothrophic lateral sclerosis, but it might have been also cervical myelopathy, syringomyelia or multifocal motor neuropathy. This illness progressively obstructed his piano playing, but he was active as composer until his death. In 1966 he suffered a heart attack. From that moment his life was oscillating between hospital treatments and very active musical life. In the last few months of his life he had the second heart attack and lung cancer was diagnosed. But it was the third heart attack on August 9th 1975 that abruptly cut off his creative life.

Dmitry Shostakovich; Pathography

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