Dmitri Shostakovich

Overture to Armer Columbus, op. 23 no. 1

1929

For a staging of Erwin Dressel’s opera Armer Columbus, Shostakovich wrote an overture and finale (op. 23). The overture also exists in a version for piano by Shostakovich.

Recommended editions

New Collected Works (DSCH Publishers) · Volume 68 · ed. Victor Ekimovsky

Duration: 3' 30"

Difficulty: 3.5

Overture to Armer Columbus, op. 23 no. 1