Howard Goodall's Great Dates E04 Howard Goodall's Great Dates - 1937 - Shostakovich, Stalin and Hitler

This series, presented by composer Howard Goodall, shows that great pieces of music are not freak accidents of genius but the direct products of their time, place, culture and politics. 1791 saw the completion of Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute and his great Requiem. It was also the year of his death.