| Year | Event | Major works |
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| 25th September: Dmitri Shostakovich born in St Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). | |
| First piano lessons from his mother.
Later lessons at Ignatiy Gliasser's Music School. | First attempt at composition: Revolutionary Symphony and an opera The Gypsies |
| Piano lessons from Alexandra Rozanova. | some lost piano works: Hymn to Freedom and The Soldier |
| Enters the Petrograd Conservatory. | Scherzo in F sharp minor for orchestra, op.1 |
| Piano lessons from Leonid Nikolayev. | Eight Preludes for piano, op.2 |
| 24th February: death of his father.
To earn a living for the family Dmitri gets a job as a pianist in a cinema. | Two Fables on Krylov, op.4; Three Fantastic Dances, op. 5; Suite in F sharp minor for two pianos (as an In Memoriam for his father) |
| Graduates from Conservatory program in piano.
Suffers from lymphatic and bronchial tuberculosis; recovers in a sanitarium in the Crimea. | Trio No.1, op.8 |
| 20th Mar
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