Work Title
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Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution
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Alternative. Title
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Кантата к двадцатилетию Октября
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Name Translations
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Cantata per il XX anniversario della Rivoluzione d'ottobre; Kantate zum 20. Jahrestag der Oktoberrevolution; 十月革命20周年記念のためのカンタータ
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Name Aliases
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Cantata per il XX anniversario della Rivoluzione d'Ottobre
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Authorities
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Wikipedia
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Composer
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Prokofiev, Sergey
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Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.
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Op.74
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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ISP 113
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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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10 movements
- Вступление «Призрак бродит по Европе, призрак коммунизма» (Introduction: "A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism")
- Философы (Philosophers)
- Интерлюдия (Interlude)
- Мы идём тесной кучкой (Marching in Close Ranks)
- Интерлюдия (Interlude)
- Революция (Revolution)
- Победа (Victory)
- Клятва Сталина (The Pledge)
- Симфония (Symphony)
- Конституция (The Constitution)
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1936-37
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First Performance.
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1966/4/5 (with cuts, see below)
- Moscow: Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory - cond. Kirill Kondrashin
1984/11/6 (full cantata with Stalin's texts included)
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First Publication.
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Unknown (by ca. 1970)
- Published as a facsimile of a copyist's full score.
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Librettist
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Karl Marx (1818-1883), tr. Vladimir Adoratsky (1878–1945), Russian text Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
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Language
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Russia
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Average DurationAvg. Duration
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45 minutes
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Early 20th century
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Piece Style
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Early 20th century
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Instrumentation
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chorus, speaker, orchestra
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External Links
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Wikipedia article
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Extra Information
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The cantata was finished in 1937 for the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution; the composer's hope was that it would be premiered that year. The June 1937 piano-vocal run-through at the Committee of Artistic Affairs caused political controversy, which prevented the cantata's planned 1937 premiere. Despite Prokofiev's hope that a public premiere would occur in 1938, none would happen until 1966, after his death. Since Stalin had been denounced in the meantime, Kirill Kondrashin was forced to excise the settings of texts by Stalin from the official premiere, although they remained in the limited-run facsimile score published by Muzfond.
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