Shostakovich: The Gamblers

Description

Form: Opera based on the comedy play The Gamblers of 1832 by Nikolai Gogol, for six male solo voices and large orchestra (with 2 Harps, Piano, and bass Balalaika).

Composed: Begun on 28 December 1941, continued in May and June 1942, but abandoned after composing about 50 minutes of the score. of the twenty-five scenes, the first seven and most of the eighth completed. Written at Kuibyshev (Samara).

Duration: Unfinished: approx. 47 min.

This volume contains both the full score and a vocal score.

Score: This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the full score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes - Volume 23, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, collated with the author's manuscript kept in Dmitri Shostakovich's Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 1 and the first edition of 1981: Sovetskiy kompozitor Publishers, Moscow. When necessary, the piano score—D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes - Volume 28, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, 1986—is also taken into consideration.

Piano reduction: This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the piano score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes - Volume 28, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, collated with the author's manuscript kept in Dmitri Shostakovich's Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 2 and the first edition of the 1981 piano score—Sovetskiy kompozitor Publishes, Moscow. When necessary, the edition of the score published in this volume is also taken into consideration.