Work Title
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Cantata 'Snowflakes' for choir, soprano and orchestra on poems by Russian poets
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Alternative. Title
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Floçons de neige
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Composer
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Grechaninov, Aleksandr
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Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.
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Op.47
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Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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IAG 58
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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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10 pieces:
- Snowflakes [Снежинки]
- Palm Sunday [Вербочки]
- The little calf [Про теленочка]
- In the wood [В лесу]
- Hop o'my thumb [Мальчик с пальчик]
- Pixies [Гномы]
- The night [Ночь]
- Frost [Морозко]
- The Snowdrop [Подснежник]
- The song of the Fairy [Песенка Феи]
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First Publication.
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1911 – Moscow: A. Gutheil
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Copyright Information
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Although purely instrumental selections and arrangements are permitted for this piece items containing any text by the author(s) listed below cannot be added to the main server (located in Canada) until 70 years after the death of the author(s). Items with text first published before 1930 or otherwise confirmed as public domain in the United States can be uploaded to the US server only.
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Librettist
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see below
- 1. Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)
- 2. Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921)
- 3. Ivan Novikov (1877–1959)
- 4. Sergey Gorodetsky (1884–1967)
- 5. Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)
- 6. Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942)
- 7. Poliksena Solovyova (1867–1924)
- 8. NN
- 9. Poliksena Solovyova (1867–1924)
- 10. Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942)
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Language
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Russian
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Average DurationAvg. Duration
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16 minutes
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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Piece Style
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Romantic
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Instrumentation
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soprano, chorus, orchestra
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Extra Information
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The original title is Cantata 'Snowflakes' for choir, soprano and orchestra on poems by Russian poets. Recorded 1994 on Chandos (in orchestral guise, with symphony 1 and a mass.)
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