The Queen of Spades (Prokofiev)

70, is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 for the planned but unrealized film by Mikhail Romm.

[3][4] Having signed a contract dated 29 May 1936, Prokofiev finished the piano score by 12 July, before sending it to his assistant, Pavel Lamm.

[5] The 14-page piano reduction manuscript is preserved at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, in Moscow.

[6] Prokofiev reused music from The Queen of Spades in the third movement of his fifth symphony,[7] as well as in his Piano Sonata No.

The Queen of Spades is scored for two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, piano, and strings.