3050338 Composers Dmitry Shostakovich, right, and Benjamin Britten in Moscow, 1966 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75). Russian composer; Peter Pears (1910-86) English tenor; Benjamin Britten (1913??6) English composer, conductor and pianist. Inspired by their friendship, Britten dedicated to Shostakovich his opera ???he Prodigal Son?? and Shostakovich dedicated to Britten his Fourteenth Symphony. Britten visited Moscow in 1963; 1964; 1966; 1967); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.