The Comedians: Ballet Suite

Composer: KABALEVSKY, Dmitri
  • This piece: Komediantï (The Comedians)1 was originally incidental music for a 1938 play entitled Inventor and Comedian given at the Central Children’s Theatre of Moscow.2
  • Kabalevsky extracted a suite from this material in 1940 as his Op.26.3

Sources

  1. Dina Grigor′yevna Daragan, “Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 30, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000014573.
  2. Betsy Schwarm, “The Comedians, Op. 26,” Encyclopædia Brittanica (March 15, 2016), accessed October 30, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Comedians-Op-26.
  3. Daragan, “Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

40325