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Written in 1938 for the newly founded State
Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and premiered on 28 November
1938. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of the
work was rediscovered in 1999 by Manashir Yakubov. Three movements of
the suite were reconstructed and orchestrated by Gerard McBurney, and
were premiered at a London Promenade Concert in 2000. Until recently,
another 8-movement Suite by Shostakovich had been misidentified and
recorded as the 2nd Jazz Suite. This work is now correctly known as the
Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956), from which "Waltz No. 2" was
made famous by the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and
which now seems irrevocably erroneously associated with the Jazz Suite
No. 2.
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