general information

composition date
1985
duration
47 min
editor
Hans Sikorski, Karlsruhe
Artistic collaboration(s)
Chorégraphie de Andrei Petrov.
Libretto (details, author)

Livret d'Andreï Petrov d'après Nikolaï Gogol.

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Orchestral music)

detailed formation

2 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes (also English horn), 2 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 5 percussions, piano [préparé], celesta, harpsichord, electric organ, electric guitar

information about the creation

date
January 16, 1985

URSS, Moscou, Théâtre du Bolchoï

interpreters

Guennadi Rojdestvenski, direction.

observations

Les mouvements 2-4, 9, 10 et 14 sont basés sur la Gogol Suite ; les mouvements 5-8 et 11-13 ont été composés pour cette œuvre et les mouvements 1 et 14 ont été composés avec Sofia Goubaïdoulina, Edison Denisov et Guennadi Rojdestvenski.

Part titles

1. March ‘The Swan, the Crab and the Pike’
2. Overture
3. Chichikov’s Childhood
4. The Portrait
5. Major Kovalyov
6. The Nose (The Morning, The Loss of the Nose, Searching the Nose, Despair, The Nose is Found)
7. The Overcoat
8. Ferdinand VIII
9. The Civil Servants
10. The Unknown Woman (Barrel-organ, The Unknown Woman, Pas de deux, The Debauch, Sabbath, Barrel-organ)
11. Spanish Royal March
12. The Ball
13. The Testament (Ukrainian Folksong)
14. March ‘The Swan, the Crab and the Pike’


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