Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)

Les Joueurs (1941 -1942)

opera based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol (unfinished)

  • General information
    • Composition date: 28 dec 1941 - jun 1942
    • Duration: 50 mn
    • Publisher: Le Chant du Monde
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Dimitri Chostakovitch, d'après Gogol

Detailed formation
  • 3 flutes (also alto flute, piccolo), 3 oboes (also English horn), 4 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, balalaika [basse] , 2 harp, piano, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 18 September 1978
    Location:

    (version de concert), URSS, Léningrad, grande salle de la Philharmonie


    Performers:

    les solistes et l'Orchestre de l'opéra de chambre de Moscou, direction : Guénadi Rojdestvenski.

Observations

à l'origine op. 63