In the sections that contain cannon shots, actual cannons are sometimes replaced by howitzers, tanks, fireworks, or recorded cannons or played on a piece of staging, usually with a large wooden mallet or sledgehammer as used in Mahler's 6th Symphony. The carillon is sometimes replaced with tubular bells or recordings of carillons, or even church bells. Artillery: one battery of cannon, or even ceremonial field artillery.Strings: violins I & II, violas, cellos and double basses.Percussion: timpani, orchestral bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, carillon.Brass: 4 horns in F, 2 cornets in B ♭, 2 trumpets in E ♭, 3 trombones (2 tenor, 1 bass) and 1 tuba.Woodwinds: 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 cor anglais, 2 clarinets in B ♭ and 2 bassoons.Note: the brass band or its substitute is meant to play during the finale only.
Military or marching bands also play this part. In some indoor performances, the part may be played on an organ.
The overture debuted in Moscow on 20 August 1882, conducted by Ippolit Al'tani under a tent near the then-almost-finished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which also memorialised the 1812 defense of Russia. The piece commemorates Russia's successful defense of the French invasion of the country by Napoleon in 1812. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. A performance, with cannon fire, at the 2005 Classical Spectacular in Melbourne, AustraliaĬommemoration of the 1812 Russian defense against Napoleon I's invading Grande Armée
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