The Great Citizen (Part 2)
op. 55 - Funeral March (1938-39)Music from the film directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Duration: 4'
Scoring
2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:SD/cyms-harp-strings
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Repertoire Note
Score for the film by Fridrikh Ermler.
Shostakovich’s score for Part 2 of Fridrikh Ermler’s epic embellishment of the life and death of Sergei Kirov (see Shostakovich op.52 for Part 1) survives in the shape of a handful of orchestral movements including a funeral march based on the 19th century revolutionary song ‘You Fell As A Victim’, which Shostakovich memorably reused in the slow movement of his 11th Symphony.
Note by Gerard McBurney