general information

composition date
1934
duration
18 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Orchestral music)

detailed formation

2 bassoons, 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, percussionist, harp, piano, strings

information about the creation

date
December 21, 1934

URSS, Moscou. 

observations

D’après la musique de scène pour la pièce de Bernard Shaw, Alexandre Pouchkine et William Shakespeare.

Part titles

  • 1. Night in Egypt 
  • 2. Caesar, the Sphinx and Cleopatra 
  • 3. Alarum
  • 4. Dances 
  • 5. Antony 
  • 6. Eclipse of Cleopatra 
  • 7. Roma militaria 

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