Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
Un souriceau stupide (1939)
music for the cartoon directed by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, for eight solo singers and small orchestra
- General information
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Composition date:
1939 - apr 1939
- Duration: 13 mn
- Publisher: Le Chant du Monde
- Opus: 56
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Composition date:
1939 - apr 1939
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [2 solo voices or more and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- 2 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes (also English horn), 2 clarinets (also bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, 3 percussionists, celesta, harp, 2 violins, 2 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses
Premiere information
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Date:
13 September 1940
Location:première projection du film.
Observations
Le chef d'orchestre Boris Tiles reconstruisit la partition d'orchestre à partir de la partition pour piano et les parties séparées d'orchestre (version créée à Léningrad en 1979).