Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
La Comédie humaine (1933 -1934)
stage music for a play adapted from Honoré de Balzac by Pavel Soukhotine
stage work
- General information
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Composition date:
1933 - 1934
- Publisher: Le Chant du Monde
- Opus: 37
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Composition date:
1933 - 1934
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [Solo voice and ensemble of 10 to 25 instruments]
Detailed formation
- flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, saxhorn [baryton] , trombone, tuba, timpani, percussionist, piano, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
1 April 1934
Location:URSS, Moscou, Théâtre Vakhtangov
Performers:Alexeï Kozlovski et Boris Chtchoukine : mise en scène.
Table of contents
- Introduction (Moderato)
- Ouverture (Moderato)
- Chanson des étudiants (Allegretto)
- Valse (Allegro bravura)
- Elégie (Moderato)
- Marche (Allegretto)
- Paris joyeux (Allegretto)
- Le théâtre (Allegro con brio)
- Thème de Paris (Andantino)
- Paris cruel (Moderato)
- Gavotte (Allegretto)
- Fanfare (Allegro molto)
- Le Panorama de Paris (Andantino)
- Panique lors de l'échange (Presto)
- L'orgue de Barbarie (Andantino)
- Le quai de la Seine (Andantino)
- Le coffret de diamants (Allegro)
- Marche de la police (Allegretto)
- Fanfare (Allegro)
- Sarabande (Moderato)
- Scandale (Allegro molto)
- [Episode] (Allegretto)