Festival Overture "1812"

Beside his operas, for which he is best known, he wrote pieces for piano and chorus, and a majestic Festival Overture.

Festival Overture (1940)

Festival Overture, for chorus and orchestra (1929)

Also here are the "Tragic Overture" and the "Academic Festival Overture."

Shostakovich's "Festival Overture," a rousing bit of Stalinist agitprop converted here to capitalistic uses, opened the evening.

One example he said was his own "American Festival Overture," some of whose thematic materials were drawn from the street calls of his childhood.

Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem (1 December 1883)

Festival Overture (arrangement of orchestral work 1911)

The program began with one of his most popular works, the exuberant "American Festival Overture" (1939).