Works
Shebalin composed in many musical genres. Among his creations are operas, symphonies, string quartets, trios and sonatas, choral music, romances, songs, music to dramas, radio plays, and film scores. One of the most interesting works of Shebalin is his opera Ukroshcheniye stroptivoy (Укрощение строптивой – The Taming of the Shrew, after William Shakespeare) (1957). He wrote another opera Solntse nad stepyu (Солнце над степью – The Sun above the Steppe, 1958), and also the music comedy Zhenikh iz posolstva (Жених из посольства– The Bridegroom from the Embassy, (1942). He also completed the opera Sorochintsy Fair by Modest Mussorgsky in 1930, and reconstructed a long missing pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake from a violin 'repetiteur' rediscovered in 1953.
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