''Intervision'' is a brief orchestral work by

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

composed in 1971. It was commissioned by the

Intervision Network The International Radio and Television Organisation (official name in French: Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision or OIRT (before 1960 International Broadcasting Organization (IBO), official name in French: ''Organi ...

, which broadcast its premiere on March 29, 1971, one day before the

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. Because Shostakovich's ''Intervision'' was regularly used to preface broadcasts of foreign news items, the work became one of the composer's best-known in the final decades of the

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. It was published in volume 36 of the new complete works edition of the composer's music currently being published by DSCH Publishers. Shostakovich's manuscript, which contained portions of his transcription for voices and piano of his Symphony No. 14, was gifted by the composer to

Boris Parsadanian Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian (russian: Бори́с Христофо́рович Парсаданя́н; May 14, 1925 – May 14, 1997) was a Soviet-born Armenian-Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator. Biography Parsadanian w ...

. The manuscript is currently held in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection.

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