The Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr)

		Movements/Sections 4 acts, 6 scenes Composition Year 1878–79, revised 1880, 1882 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

Sheet Music

• Vocal Scores (5)

Vocal Scores

 Introduction
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 Act I
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 Act II
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 Act III
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 Act IV
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Arranger:

Pyotr Tchaikovsky [Introduction & Act I]
Yury Messer [Acts I & II]
Yosif Kotek (1855–1885) [Act III]

Editor:

V.D. Vasilyev

Publisher Info.:

P.I. Tchaikovsky: Complete Collected Works, vol.37 (Полное собрание сочинений).
Moscow: Muzgiz, 1963. Plate M. 30576 Г.

Reprinted:

Leningrad: Muzyka, 1979. Plate 2406.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Text and notes in Russian (Cyrillic)

Preface and appendices omitted in reprint.
Includes original and revised versions of Nos.8, 15, 17, 21, 22)

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General Information

Work Title	The Maid of Orleans
Alternative Title	Орлеанская дева

Composer	Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Opus/Catalogue Number	TH 6
Movements/Sections	4 acts, 6 scenes
Year/Date of Composition	1878–79, revised 1880, 1882
First Performance	1881-02-25 — St. Petersburg, Maryinsky Theatre Mariya Kamenskaya (Joan), Mikhail Vasilyev III (King), Wilhelmina Raab (Agnes Sorel), Fyodor Stravinsky (Dunois), Ippolit Pryanishnikov (Lionel), Vladimir Maiboroda (Archbishop), Fyodor Sokolov (Raimond), Mikhail Koryakin (Thibaut), Eduard Nápravník (conductor).
First Publication	1880 — Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Vocal score, 461 pages. Plates 3951 to 3974. 1881 — Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Arrangement for solo piano (Eduard Langer). 1884 — Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Vocal score (2nd edition). 1899 — Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Full score. 1899 — Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Vocal score (3rd edition).
Librettist	Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), after Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Jules Barbier (1825–1901) and Auguste Mermet (1810–1889)
Language	Russian
Dedication	Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916)
Average Duration	156 minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices: Joan of Arc (Иоанна д'Арк) (soprano or mezzo-soprano) ; King Charles VII (Король Карл VII) (tenor) ; Agnès Sorel (Агнесса Сорель) (soprano) ; Dunois (Дюнуа), a French knight (baritone) ; Lionel (Лионель), a Burgundian knight (baritone) ; Archbishop/Cardinal (Архиепископ/Кардинал) (bass) ; Raimond (Раймонд), Joan's fiancé (tenor) ; Thibaut d'Arc (Тибо д'Арк), Joan's father (bass) ; Bertrand (Бертран), a peasant (bass) ; Soldier (Воин) (2nd bass) ; Lauret (Лоре) (2nd bass) ; Angel (Ангел) (soprano) + mixed chorus (SATB) Orchestra: piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (B♭, A, C), 2 bassoons + 4 horns (F, D, E♭, E), 2 cornets (B♭, A), 2 trumpets (E♭, F, E, D, A), 3 trombones, tuba + timpani, triangle, tambourine, side drum, bass drum, tam-tam, bell (C) + organ + harp, strings Offstage: 3 trumpets, wind band
External Links	Tchaikovsky Research Wikipedia article
Extra Information	The vocal score was also arranged by Tchaikovsky with Iosif Kotek and Yury Messer, 1879. In 1880 Tchaikovsky made minor revisions to the opera (incorporated into the 1884 edition of the vocal score, 1884) and in 1882 he transposed Joan's part from soprano to mezzo-soprano (first published in appendices to Jurgenson's full and vocal scores, 1899)