Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 acts |
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Composition Year | 1860 |
Genre Categories | Operas; Theatrical Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; |
Work Title | Дети степей, или Украинские цыгане |
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Alternative. Title | Children of the Steppes, or the Ukrainian Gypsies |
Name Translations | The children of the steppes; I bambini della steppa |
Authorities | Wikipedia |
Composer | Rubinstein, Anton |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IAR 35 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 acts |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1860 |
First Publication. | 1861 (Leipzig) |
Librettist | Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (1821–1877) after C. Beck's verse novel "Janko, the Hungarian Herdsman" |
Language | German; Russian singing translation by Apollon Grigoryev (1822–1864) |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | voices, chorus, with orchestra |
External Links | RISM 452502773 (1861 ms copy of full score. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.) |
This opera was premiered 23 February 1861 in Vienna at the Kärtnertor Theater. The Russian version was first performed in Moscow on 10 February 1867. Jurgenson published a piano-vocal score in 1887.