Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op.74 (Prokofiev, Sergey)

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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 10 movements
Composition Year 1936-37
Genre Categories Secular cantatas; Cantatas; For narrator, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring a narrator; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language

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Full Scores

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Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzfond, n.d.(before ca.1970).
Reprinted London: Boosey & Hawkes, n.d.
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Misc. Notes Original full score was probably published by Muzfond at the same time as the vocal score was published (in a limited run). Both were reprinted by Boosey & Hawkes.
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Arranger Composer, piano reduction
Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzfond, n.d.(before ca.1970).
Reprinted London: Boosey & Hawkes, n.d.
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General Information

Work Title Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution
Alternative. Title Кантата к двадцатилетию Октября
Name Translations 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
Name Aliases Cantata per il XX anniversario della Rivoluzione d'Ottobre
Authorities Wikipedia
Composer Prokofiev, Sergey
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.74
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ISP 113
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 10 movements
  1. Вступление «Призрак бродит по Европе, призрак коммунизма» (Introduction: "A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism")
  2. Философы (Philosophers)
  3. Интерлюдия (Interlude)
  4. Мы идём тесной кучкой (Marching in Close Ranks)
  5. Интерлюдия (Interlude)
  6. Революция (Revolution)
  7. Победа (Victory)
  8. Клятва Сталина (The Pledge)
  9. Симфония (Symphony)
  10. Конституция (The Constitution)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1936-37
First Performance. 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)

First Publication. Unknown (by ca. 1970)
Published as a facsimile of a copyist's full score.
Librettist Karl Marx (1818-1883), tr. Vladimir Adoratsky (1878–1945), Russian text
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
Language Russia
Average DurationAvg. Duration 45 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation chorus, speaker, orchestra
External Links Wikipedia article
Extra Information 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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