Based on a story by Yury Tynyanov, FTP, name this suite composed for a Russian film by Sergei Prokofiev, in which some officers invent a fake lieutenant.
This piece opens with an offstage cornet followed by whimsical military music on piccolo and snare drum, after which comes its theme of flute and tenor saxophone, which repeats itself in the final movement. The allegro fastoso third movement depicts a wedding with a cornet, but quickly moves into a raucous tavern song, hinting at the setting of the festivities. It concludes with a mock funeral march marking the burial of the central character, whose birth in the first movement resulted from the misreading of a military report, when a syllable in that report was combined with an expletive by Emperor Paul I. The fourth movement depicts a ride in a troika with ► sleigh bells. Based on a story by Yury Tynyanov, FTP, name this suite composed for a Russian film by Sergei Prokofiev, in which some officers invent a fake lieutenant.
This piece opens with an offstage cornet followed by whimsical military music on piccolo and snare drum, after which comes its theme of flute and tenor saxophone, which repeats itself in the final movement.
{Lieutenant Kijé} Suite (or just “Kije” is fine after you read “lieutenant”)