The premiere took place on February 13, 1929 in Moscow at the Vs. Meyerhold.
First publication:
Moscow, Sovetskii kompozitor, 1977 (in "Dmitri Shostakovich: Music to Plays")
Manuscripts:
A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, rec. gr. 688, № 180171; RSALA, rec. gr. 2048, inv. 2, f. 42; Glinka All-Russia Museum Association of Musical Culture (VMOMK), rec. gr. 32, f. 260
"The Bedbug". Music to the Play
For small orchestra with bass-baritone and chorus.
Music to the comedy The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky composed in January–February 1929, in less than a month at Moscow and Leningrad.