• 3.3.4.3/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/str – banda (cornet, 2 soprano sax, 2 tenor sax, 2 baritone sax, 2 bass sax)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Eugène Pottier

Programme Note

First performance: 4 October 1941, Novosibirsk Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra – Evgeni Mravinsky (conductor).

Degeyter’s song with Eugène Pottier’s text in Russian translation by Arkadi Kots (revised by A. Gapov in 1932) served as Soviet National Anthem between 1917 and 1944.