The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, Dvenadtsat stulyev) is an unfinished operetta by Dmitri Shostakovich based on the classic story of the same name, by Ilf and Petrov. Shostakovich announced the work in July 1939, for the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy. In October that year, he assumed he'd be finished with the operetta at the end of that year, but he never finished the work.
| Librettist | (Based on "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov (Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov)) |
| Date of composition | 1939 (1937-1939. Unfinished) |
| Type | Operetta |
| Autotranslations beta |
Dmitri Chostakovitch: The Twelve Chairs Dmitrij Šostakovič: The Twelve Chairs Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: The Twelve Chairs |