The Return of Maxim: Film music
(Maxims Rückkehr: Filmmusik) op. 45Score for the film by Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
Duration: 28'
Scoring
3(III=picc).2.3(III=Ebcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:SD/BD/cyms/glsp/xyl-hp-cel-pft-strings-banda:8hn/2crt/2tpt-7domras-6balalaika-gtr-bayan-solo voice-male choir
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Publisher
VAAP
Territory
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Repertoire Note
<ALIGN=LEFT>‘The Return of Maxim was the second part of Kozintsev and Trauberg’s ‘Maxim Trilogy’ (see opp.41i and 50). Shostakovich’s score for this episode included [waltz]… This waltz and five other fragments of this score were included by Lev Atovmyan in his 1961 Suite from the ‘Maxim Trilogy’ (see op.50a)
Note by Gerard McBurney