Talk:List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich

message: * Moved here from List of works by Shostakovich to bring some uniformity to :Category:Compositions by composer. David Sneek 14:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous comments

message: There actually is a very minor difference between the opus 77 and opus 99 versions. In the original opus 77, the opening of the Burlesca had the violin continuing to play without a stop over from the cadenza. During the rehearsals for the premiere, David Oistrakh asked Shostakovich to please give the violinist a rest between the cadenza and the Burlesca. Shostakovich happily complied and re-scored the opening of the finale for the winds and xylophone that we hear today. This became the "new" opus 99. This information is mentioned in Wilson's Shostakovich Remembered and Fay's Shostakovich: A Life.
:Interesting, but I read this to mean that the piece as first performed is the later version. Was the op.77 version published before the premiere? Only in that case, I think, would it be recognized as a distinct version, as opposed to a stage of composition. (Oh, and please sign your posts!) JH(emendator) 21:54, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences between opus 77 and opus 99 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Shostakovich's Prelude XXI Bb Major (Allegro) - (Part of opus 87).ogg

message: *"Seven Finnish Folk Songs for soprano, tenor and small orchestra" (1939) is listed as Opus 56a.
*Another "Seven Finnish Folk Songs for soprano, tenor and small orchestra" (1939) is listed as a work without opus number.
Are these the same work, or different works with exactly the same title composed the same year?  (unlikely, but possible, I guess).
*Now I’ve read about a "Suite on Finnish Folk Themes" for soprano, tenor and orchestra, which was discovered quite recently and had its FP in 2001.  It was also written in 1939.  Is this the same as either of the above, or is it an omission from our list?  If it’s the same work, what explains the difference in the title, and how come Op. 56a got attached to it so quickly when it had been unknown to publishers, and the world at large, before 2001?  --  JackofOz (talk) 05:11, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Three 1939 Finnish works – or one, or two

message: A piece for concert band called Folk Dances attributed to Shostakovich seems to be popular. The edition I've seen says it's "edited" by one H. Robert Reynolds; it doesn't indicate that the piece has been transcribed. In any case, I don't see a listing of this work in any form in this article or, for that matter, a band music category. Is this list intended to be exhaustive? TheScotch (talk) 07:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the 'Youth Dance' from Native Leningrad, Op. 63. I was curious for a long time about that one too. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 13:41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Folk Dances''/Band music 

message: Taking it to WT:CM to ge a more broad discussion on the topic for composer lists in general. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 19:06, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keeping arrangements/suites 

message: Just in case anybody was wondering, the new default ordering of works, which has some later opus numbers preceding earlier ones, is not an error. I'm in the process of expanding and revising the table of compositions according to the new work list edited by Gerard McBurney, who lists in chronological, not opus number order. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ordering of opus numbers