Compositions for Stage
"Virgin Soil"
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Opus 25 -
1930
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Premiere:09 May 1930
Leningrad. Working Youth Theatre (TRAM); directed by Mikhail Sokolovsky and Nikolai Lebedyev; N. Dvorikov (conductor) -
Manuscripts:the Glinka All-Russia Museum Association of Musical Culture, rec. gr. 32, f. 2264; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Archive, rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 121, 274
"Virgin Soil"
Incidental music to a stage play drama 'Soil' by Arkadi Gorbenko and Nikolai Lvov.
This production was not based on Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel Virgin Soil Upturned, the first part of which was published in 1932. The subject-matter—the socialist collectivization of the countryside—however, was similar.
In 1932–33 Shostakovich, in conjunction with Fedodosi Rubtsov, also wrote incidental music for the four-act stage play Combative Course by A. Gorbenko, N. Lvov, and Mikhail Sokolovsky staged by TRAM.
The original music is lost though a typed text is preserved in the Glinka Museum.
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