The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr)

		Movements/Sections 3 acts, 4 tableaux Composition Year 1866-1869; completed after the composer's death by Cui and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language

Scores

• Vocal Scores (12)

Vocal Scores

1871 version

For César Cui's orchestral introduction, omitted from this edition, see Introduction to 'The Stone Guest' (Cui, César).

 Title page of original edition, with editorial note explaining the circumstances
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 Act I, Tableau 1
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 Act I, Tableau 2
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 Act II
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 Act III
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Arranger:

César Cui (1835-1918), completion of 1st tableau
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), orchestration

Language:

Russian

Publisher Info.:

St. Petersburg: V. Bessel & Co., 1871. Plate 153.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag all]

Misc. Notes:

Censor's approval date on p.126; Laura's 2nd song, pp.37-40, has plate no.153a; Act II adds plate no.153б (from 2nd edition).

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1902 version

For Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral introduction, included in this edition, see Introduction to 'The Stone Guest' (Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay).

 Preliminaries
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 Act I, Tableau 1
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 Act I, Tableau 2
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 Act II
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 Act III
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 Supplement
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Arranger:

César Cui (1835–1918), completion of 1st tableau
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), revision and re-orchestration of 1st edition

Language:

Russian / German

Publisher Info.:

St. Petersburg: W. Bessel, 1902. Plate 5623.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag all]

Misc. Notes:

Preliminaries add plate number 153 from 1st edition; pp.184-185 blank in the exemplar scanned.

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 Complete Score
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Arranger:

César Cui (1835–1918), completion of 1st tableau
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), revision and re-orchestration of 1st edition

Language:

Russian / German / French

Publisher Info.:

St. Petersburg: W. Bessel, 1902. Plate 5623

Reprinted:

Moscow: Muzyka, 1932. Plate M. 9149 Г.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag all]

Misc. Notes:

600dpi

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General Information

Work Title	Каменный гость
Alternative Title	Le convive de pierre = Der steinerne Gast

Composer	Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr
Movements/Sections	3 acts, 4 tableaux
Year/Date of Composition	1866-1869; completed after the composer's death by Cui and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov
First Publication	1871
Librettist	Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837)
Language	Russian (rev. ed. of 1906 by Rimsky-Korsakov includes French and German texts)
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices, chorus with orchestra

Misc. Comments

This opera was left unfinished by Dargomyzhsky at his death. According to his wishes, Cui completed composition of the end of Act 1, Tableau 1, and Rimsky-Korsakov orchestrated the entire opera. The latter also rewrote a few passages which are marked in the vocal score with Dargomyzhsky's originals. Along with Cui's orchestral introduction (published separately from the vocal score), these circumstances explain the edition of 1871.

Many years later Rimsky-Korsakov re-edited and re-orchestrated the entire work and composed a new introduction; this constitutes the revised edition of 1902 and is the standard version.

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