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  • The Great Citizen, Music to the Film (part II), Op. 55 (1939)

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Programme Note

Music to the film (part II)
Most of the music appears to be lost.

Music to the film (part I)
The Great Citizen,Op. 52 was composed in 1937 and the film’s first showing took place on 13 February 1938.
This opus is being held at the Leningrad State Archives of Literature and Art: ‘Fragment’ (manuscript score).
The two parts of ‘The Great Citizen’ were jointly awarded the Stalin Prize.