What is the original melody of the Ghost in the Village music?

The musical fragment used is from the Seventh Symphony of Russian composer Shostakovich.

The Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) in C Major (OP.60), composed by Shostakovich, was premiered on July 19, 1942 in New York. Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major (OP.60) is one of the great legends in the history of world music.

The Seventh Symphony, which unites the people's belief in victory and the war against fascism, has gained great repercussions in the world.

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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Leningrad" (OP.60) is considered one of the great legends in the history of world music. one of the great legends in the history of world music.

In 1941 Hitler's fascist armies invaded the Soviet **** and State (USSR) with lightning speed. In just five months they surrounded Leningrad and pushed straight into Moscow. During the hundreds of days of the siege of Leningrad, the city was bombarded daily with massive artillery shells. The people of Leningrad were mobilized to fight the fascists to the death.

In that extremely difficult and dangerous period, the great Russian composer Shostakovich, in order to express this period in music, in order to celebrate the people's tenacious spirit of victory, began to create this doomed to be immortalized in a very difficult state of musical poetry. He said, "I want to tell the people of the world that we are still alive and we will win!"

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