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Title	Khovanshchina (Prelude: Dawn over the Moscow River)
Article no.	4107731
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Music from opera, ballet
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band); CB (Concert Band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Netherlands (nl)
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Series title	Orchestral
Year of publication	2019
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Composer	Mussorgsky, Modest
Arranger	Kovacic, Gregor
Difficulty level	3
Duration	5:30
Additional info/contents	'Khovanshchina' is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The opera was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mussorgsky wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881. Like Mussorgsky's earlier opera Boris Godunov, 'Khovanshchina' deals with an episode in Russian history. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed, revised, and scored 'Khovanshchina' in 1881-1882. Because of his extensive cuts and 'recomposition', Dmitri Shostakovich revised the opera in 1959 based on Mussorgsky's vocal score, and it is the Shostakovich version that is nowadays usually performed. The opera starts with a prelude: 'Dawn over the Moscow River'. This beautiful prelude became popular on its own and is now transcribed for Symphonic Band by Gregor Kovaciv.
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	Khovanshchina (Prelude: Dawn over the Moscow River) (concert/wind band; Concert Band), full score and parts
	Khovanshchina (Prelude: Dawn over the Moscow River) (concert/wind band), full score

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