The Gamblers. Sans op. Opera. Score. Piano score.

Form: 

Opera based on the comedy play The Gamblers of 1832 by Nikolai Gogol, for six male solo voices and large orchestra (with 2 Harps, Piano, and bass Balalaika):

1. Overture—Allegretto—to fig. 8
2. Scenes in the hotel—figs. 8 to 104
3. Card gambling scene

Orchestra:

Piccolo (= Flute III), 2 Flutes (II = alto Flute), 2 Oboes, Cor anglais, 4 Clarinets (I, II B flat and A; III A = E flat; IV B flat = Bass), 3 Bassoons (III = Contrabassoon)
4 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba
Timpani, Triangle, Tambourine, Side drum, Castanets, Cymbals, Bass drum
Xylophone, bass Balalaika, 2 Harps, Piano
Strings

Composed:

Begun on 28 December 1941, continued in May and June 1942, but abandoned after composing about 50 minutes of the score. Of the twenty-five scenes, the first seven and most of the eighth completed. Written at Kuibyshev (Samara).

Duration:

Unfinished: approx. 47 min.

Score:
This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the full score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 23, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, collated with the author’s manuscript kept in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 1 and the first edition of 1981: Sovetskiy kompozitor Publishers, Moscow. When necessary, the piano score—D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 28, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, 1986—is also taken into consideration.

Piano score:
This publication is based on the 1986 edition of the piano score: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 28, Muzyka Publishes, Moscow, collated with the author’s manuscript kept in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Archive—rec. gr. 1, section 1, f. 2 and the first edition of the 1981 piano score—Sovetskiy kompozitor Publishes, Moscow. When necessary, the edition of the score published in this volume is also taken into consideration.