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The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich.It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) by the State Jazz Orchestra.
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich [a] [b] (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist [1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
Only surviving contribution by Shostakovich for a film by Lev Arnshtam tentatively entitled Warmongers (Russian: Поджигатели войны, romanized: Podzhigateli voyny); a biopic about Georgi Dimitrov and his prosecution for alleged involvement in the Reichstag fire. Ideological bickering interrupted production in 1951.
Each of the suite's movements is arranged from Shostakovich's scores for the ballet, theatre, and cinema. The first and last movements are based on the "March" from the 1940 comedy film Adventures of Korzinkina []; [11] the "Waltz I" is an arrangement of a cue that had been cut from the film.
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
It is scored for 3 saxophones (soprano, alto and tenor), 2 trumpets, trombone, wood block, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, xylophone, banjo, Hawaiian guitar, piano, violin and double bass. [2] The premiere was on March 24, 1934. [2] A performance takes about 8 minutes. [1] Shostakovich used the waltz in his 1935 ballet The Limpid Stream. [3]
The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. [2] Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences.
The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged by Levon Atovmyan from Dmitri Shostakovich's score for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich. [1]