The Gamblers. Sans op. Opera. Score. Piano score.
Volume 56
2017
Unfinished Opera based on Nikolai Gogol’s play of the same name. Sans Op.
Edited by Victor Ekimovsky. Explanatory article by Levon Hakobian.

- Overture—Allegretto—to fig. 8
- Scenes in the hotel—figs. 8 to 104
- Card gambling scene
Piccolo (= Flute III), 2 Flutes (II = alto Flute), 2 Oboes, Cor anglais, 4 Clarinets (I, II B flat and A; III A = E flat; IV B flat = Bass), 3 Bassoons (III = Contrabassoon)
4 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba
Timpani, Triangle, Tambourine, Side drum, Castanets, Cymbals, Bass drum
Xylophone, bass Balalaika, 2 Harps, Piano
Strings
Score:
This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the full score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 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, Vol. 28, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, 1986—is also taken into consideration.
Piano score:
This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the piano score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 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.