New Collected Works Compositions for the Stage

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.

Opuses:

“The Gamblers”. Unfinished Opera
1942 year

Op. SO
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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):
  1. Overture—Allegretto—to fig. 8
  2. Scenes in the hotel—figs. 8 to 104
  3. Card gambling scene
Orchestra:
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
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.

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.

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