Orchestral Compositions. Piano Scores

Suite No. 1 for Jazz Orchestra

Sans op.

This publication is based on the 1945 edition—D. Shostakovich, Jazz Suite No. 1. Piano Score, Music Foundation of the Soviet Union (adaptation by Levon Atovmyan).

Collation with the score published in 2006 (see: D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 32, DSCH, Moscow) reveals that, with respect to many of its fragments, this adaptation, which belongs to the concerto genre, is an inaccurate and very free re-arrangement, which often departs from the original notation, while No. 2 (“Polka”) even includes an additional 25-bar episode featuring music that does not appear in Shostakovich.

This edition has been brought into correspondence with the score—the necessary corrections have been made to the first and third movements, while the second movement appears in a new arrangement done by the present editor.

A description of the manuscript sources of Suite No. 1 appears in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 32, DSCH, Moscow, 2006 (Appendix II: M. Iakubov, Rough Drafts of Suites No. 1 and No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra, pp. 179-203).

Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra

Sans op.

This publication is based on the author’s manuscript (arrangement for piano) kept in RNMM, rec. gr. 32, f. 282. It is a rough draft with unfinished and missing staves, with various abbreviations, without dynamic designations or articulation marks. The published piano score is brought into correspondence with the orchestral transcription of the Suite done by Gerard McBurney by the present editor—D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 32, DSCH, Moscow, 2006.

A description of the draft author’s manuscript of Suite No. 2 is published in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 32, DSCH, Moscow, 2006 (Appendix II: M. Iakubov, Rough Drafts of Suites No. 1 and No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra, pp. 179-203).

“Novorossiysk Chimes” (Flame of Eternal Glory)

Sans op.

This publication is based on the author’s arrangement for piano published in the journal Muzykalnaya zhizn, No. 22, 1960, collated with the score in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 36, DSCH, Moscow, 2019. The location of the author’s manuscript is unknown.

In 1966, Genrikh Kovalev did an arrangement for male choir accompanied by piano (words by Kira Alemasova). Published in Appendix I of this edition from: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 vols., Vol. 34, Moscow, 1985 (Appendix, pp. 197-199).

Funeral and Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad

Op. 130

This publication is based on the author’s manuscript (arrangement for piano) kept in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 83, collated with the score in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 36, DSCH, Moscow, 2019.

A description of the author’s manuscript of this arrangement is published in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 36, DSCH, Moscow, 2019 (Appendix: M. Karachevskaya, Description of Hand-Written Sources, Author’s Manuscript B, p. 138).

Festive Overture

Op. 96

This publication is based on the 1960 edition, Sovetskiy kompozitor, Moscow (arrangement for piano four hands by Emin Khachaturian), collated with the score in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 35, DSCH, Moscow, 2017.

Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Songs

Op. 115

This publication is based on the four-hand arrangement for piano by Victor Chernelevsky, collated with the score in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 35, DSCH, Moscow, 2017.

It is being published for the first time.

Symphonic Poem “October”

Op. 131

This publication is based on the author’s manuscript (four-hand piano arrangement) kept in D. Shostakovich’s Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 80 (A), collated with the score in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 36, DSCH, Moscow, 2019 (S).

A description of this arrangement is published in D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, in 150 vols., Vol. 36, DSCH, Moscow, 2019 (Appendix: M. Karachevskaya, Description of Hand-Written Sources, Author’s Manuscript F, p. 140).