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- Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1947)
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- 2+pic.3.3.2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/str; additional brass: 4.3.3.0
- 10 min
- 9th February 2026, McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, Stillwater, OK, United States of America
- 9th February 2026, McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, Stillwater, OK, United States of America
Programme Note
Composed for the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution
First performance: 6 November 1954, Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra – Alexander Melik-Pashaev (conductor).
The work was presumably assigned the opus number 96 during the preliminaries of its first performance in 1954 on the occasion of the thirty-seventh Anniversary of the October Revolution. Erna Meskhishvili states that Samuil Samosud conducted the first performance. Also known as ‘Festival Overture’ and ‘Holiday Overture’. The introductory section makes use of No. 7 (‘Birthday’) from ‘Children’s Notebook’, Op. 69.
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(Allegretto – Presto)