Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
Les Joueurs (1941 -1942)
opera based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol (unfinished)
- General information
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Composition date:
28 dec 1941 - jun 1942
- Duration: 50 mn
- Publisher: Le Chant du Monde
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Libretto (details, author):
Dimitri Chostakovitch, d'après Gogol
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Composition date:
28 dec 1941 - jun 1942
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [2 solo voices or more and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- 3 flutes (also alto flute, piccolo), 3 oboes (also English horn), 4 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, balalaika [basse] , 2 harp, piano, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
18 September 1978
Location:(version de concert), URSS, Léningrad, grande salle de la Philharmonie
Performers:les solistes et l'Orchestre de l'opéra de chambre de Moscou, direction : Guénadi Rojdestvenski.
Observations
à l'origine op. 63