Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf op. 67 ( Russian Петя и волк ) is a music fairy tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev from 1936. A radio play narrator tells the composer's fairy tale and a symphony orchestra fuses it with the composer's program music . The aim of the work is to familiarize children with the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Today it is Prokofiev's best-known work (along with the Knights' Dance ) and one of the most widely performed works of classical music in the world.

plot

Peter, a young boy, lives with his grandfather in rural Russia . A long winter is over. On the first morning of spring, Peter happily opens the garden gate and goes out onto the large lawn in front of the house. There he is greeted by his little friend, the bird , who is chirping with excitement and joy . Both sit down on a tree and the bird shows him the reason for his joy, his nest, in which there are six freshly laid bird eggs. While Peter and the bird are having fun in the tree, another friend of Peter woke up with a violent spring fever: a slightly confused duck . The duck knows that it should stay in the garden, but the winter had become very long for her too, and she really wants to swim again. "Well, the cool, blue pond is only a few waddling steps away," thinks the duck and waddles over. She throws herself into the water. When the bird sees the duck, it flies to her and says maliciously: “What kind of bird are you if you can't fly ?!” The duck replies: “And what kind of bird are you if you can't swim ?! ”So one word leads to another, until another creature comes creeping through the reeds on quiet paws: Peter's cat . He hears the bird. “The bird is busy looking at the duck,” thinks the cat, “if I sneak up closer, then I might be able to catch it.” The cat pounces on the bird, but it is in the air in a flash. “Well, there's the duck too,” the cat thinks to himself. But he's no longer lucky with that either. Then Peter's grandfather comes trampling across the meadow and scolds him because Peter is alone in the meadow and forgot to close the garden gate. It is very dangerous in the meadow. The forest begins right behind the meadow and all sorts of wild animals live hidden in it. What if all of a sudden a bad wolf came out of the forest and devoured Peter? “You would be in his stomach then!” He warns his grandson. Grandfather Peter emphatically warns that the thing with the wolf is not a laughing matter, but a very serious matter. But a boy like Peter is not afraid of wolves. Grandfather takes the boy, closes the garden gate and comes back into the house with Peter.

All of a sudden it becomes very quiet in the meadow. And then, barely audible, there is a rustle in the leaves at the end of the meadow under a few trees that stand on the edge of the deep, dark forest. The wolf smells the duck. He hears the duck. The cat is the first to see the wolf. Then the bird also sees the wolf and tries to warn the duck. But it's too late! The wolf grabs the duck and swallows it down.

Now Peter's great adventure begins.

The tomcat sits on one branch, the bird on another. In the meantime the wolf is walking around the tree, eyeing the cat and the bird with greedy eyes. Apparently the duck was just the starter. Peter is vigilant and brave: “I have to do something,” he thinks and wants to outsmart the wolf: He fetches a rope and climbs over the garden wall and quickly runs across the meadow. He has to distract the wolf. Then he climbs up in the tree to join his cat and the bird. “Don't be such a scaredy rabbit,” Peter warns his cat. He tells the bird to fly around the wolf's head to distract him. His friend the bird does this, and it annoys the wolf very much because he cannot catch the bird. Now Peter sends his cat down with a rope loop with which they catch the wolf by the tail. Peter catches the wolf by letting himself go from the tree at the other end of the rope and hanging the wolf from the tree in the rope noose. The wolf fell into the trap! That annoys him even more.

The hunters come out of the forest and shoot the wolf. But Peter doesn't want that! He has a much better idea: the wolf is brought to the zoo. They all walk one behind the other: Peter, his grandfather, his cat, the hunters and the big bad wolf locked up. At the end you can hear the duck croaking in the wolf's belly, "because the wolf swallowed it alive in a hurry."

layout

libretto

Sergei Prokofjew wrote the libretto for a radio drama speaker who tells the story of Peter and the Wolf.

Different interpretations of the composition range from a "naive story" to the successful rebellion (Peter) against the establishment (grandfather, parents, party?) To a parable about the young Soviet Union and greedy capitalist Europe and Hitler's Germany.

music

The music is conceived for a symphony orchestra, with string instruments ( violins , viola , cello , double bass ), brass instruments (3 horns in F, 1  trumpet in B ♭ and 1 trombone ), woodwind instruments (1 flute , 1 oboe , 1 clarinet in A and 1 bassoon ) and percussion instruments (1 pair of timpani , 1 triangle , 1  tambourine , 1 cymbal , 1 castanets , 1 small drum , 1 large drum).

Each character in the story is assigned to a specific instrument and has its own musical theme :

• The violins accompany little Peter.

• The flute chirps like a bird.

• The oboe croaks like a duck.

• The clarinet purrs like a cat.

• The bassoon hums like a grandfather.

• The 3 horns reveal that the wolf is coming.

• The trumpets theme let the hunter with rifle fire on the timpani march.

The music is easy to understand and catchy. Although the subtitle is “A symphonic fairy tale for children”, the music follows the plot mainly descriptively and as an accompaniment; the term “symphonic” refers to the instrumentation and not to the structural and formal arrangement of the work. The themes are apparently hardly developed and processed, but there are numerous transformations of the motifs. So, according to the story, the themes of the individual characters interweave again and again, with different colors. The numerous variations and nesting of the bird and Peter motif are particularly striking.

history

Emergence

After returning to the Soviet Union, Sergei Prokofiev visited the Moscow Children's Theater with his sons several times . The artistic theater director Natalija Saz approached him one day and commissioned him in 1936 to write a musical fairy tale for children. She wanted a work that would familiarize children with the instruments of the symphony orchestra.

In the first draft of the libretto , the Russian children's book author Antonia Sakonskaja (who later became famous in the Soviet Union) presented a young pioneer named Peter, who is very virtuous: he loves his homeland, respects his parents, loves peace, maintains friendship (with animals), learns hardworking, tidy and disciplined, respects all working people and helps out everywhere, is a good friend to others, likes to sing, dance and do handicrafts, does sports and keeps his body clean and healthy. But above all, he makes up for a mistake by once again questioning the attitude of an older adult (his grandfather) in order to be a whole young pioneer. This was a generally recognized goal in child rearing in the Soviet Union around 1936. The libretto particularly emphasized virtues such as vigilance, bravery and inventiveness against the stubbornness of the non-Bolshevik older generation (the grandfather).

But Prokofiev was dissatisfied with the rhyming text and wrote a new version of the libretto in which Peter catches a wolf. With a few orchestral instruments he played the background or descriptive sound of his story in the form of program music .

The premiere took place on May 2, 1936 with Natalija Saz as a radio play speaker.

reception

Prokofiev's musical fairy tale is so popular with young and old around the world that Peter and the Wolf are now available in numerous arrangements, for example for mixed choir , a recorder ensemble , accordion orchestra and radio drama speakers or for wind quintet and radio drama speakers . The music fairy tale offers a whole range of starting points for music lessons . Some orchestral instruments can be introduced through the delightful story. The story can also be staged by the students. Peter and the Wolf are often reworked as an exemplary work from program music in the lessons of higher grades.

Walt Disney produced a cartoon adaptation of the episode film Make Mine Music in 1946 with Sterling Holloway as a radio play narrator.

In 1958, the American Broadcasting Company broadcast a video-recorded TV special entitled Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf , Art Carney as a Radio Play Speaker, and the Bil Baird Marionettes. It was so successful that the TV special was broadcast a second time. The show had an original storyline in which Carney interacted with some talking animal puppets, particularly the wolf, the troublemaker of the group. This first half of the show was presented as a musical that adapted music from Lieutenant Kishe and other works by Prokofiev. Then the program went into a complete and true-to-original performance of the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf , illustrated by the play of the marionettes.

Around 1960 Hans Conried recorded the music fairy tale with a Dixieland musical band. Since there are no oboes in a Dixieland band, the leitmotif of the duck was adopted by a saxophone . The Clyde Valley Stompers recorded a jazz version for Parlophone Records (45-R 4928) in 1962, which made it into the US pop music charts. Allan Sherman parodied the musical fairy tale on his album Peter and the Commissar (1964), which he produced with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra . In 1966 Oliver Nelson arranged and conducted a jazz version for big band and Hammond organ . The organ was played by Jimmy Smith . The record, produced by Creed Taylor and released by Verve , is considered by critics and jazz fans to be one of Jimmy Smith's best recordings. The precise brass sections, the rhythm section with bassist Richard Davis and drummer Grady Tate and imaginative and passionate solos by Jimmy Smith are particularly noteworthy . Finally, American-Canadian filmmaker Caroline Leaf used sand animation to adapt the musical fairy tale in Sand or Peter and the Wolf . This was her first film.

The Rock Peter and the Wolf is a 1975 album by Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley adapted from Prokofiev's work. The album was released for RSO Records in five languages, the radio drama speakers were Vivian Stanshall (English), Wilken F. Dincklage (German), Pierre Clémenti (French), Maurizio Arcieri ( Italian ) and Luis Del Olmo (sp. ). The instrumental line-up was prominent (including Gary Moore , Manfred Mann , Phil Collins , Stéphane Grappelli , Alvin Lee , Cozy Powell , Brian Eno , Jon Hiseman , Bill Bruford , Chris Spedding , Gary Brooker , Julie Driscoll , Keith Tippett and the English Chorale) , the music is very heterogeneous - from psychedelic rock to jazz (Grappelli's violin solo in blues form on the theme of the cat with Alvin Lee on rhythm guitar). In 1976, shortly before his death , Anatoly Karanovich realized the Soyuzmult cartoon Пéтя и Волк ("Peter and the Wolf") with a young pioneer as radio play speaker and the young pioneer orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory of Music .

The movie Merry Christmas (1984) contains music from the musical fairy tale, especially during the character scenes where Scott Farkurs bullies other characters. The surname Farkus is a variation of farkas , which is Hungarian and means wolf . Justin Locke published a sequel to the musical fairy tale in 1985 using Prokofiev's original score. Peter VS. the Wolf shows the wolf's criminal trial in which the wolf defends himself against the charge of "first-degree dukicide with one gulp". The music is used as evidence, but then the wolf calls musicians to the stand and cross-examines them. Arnie Zane choreographed a punk music ballet version of the music fairy tale in 1985 . In 1988 Weird Al Yankovic and Wendy Carlos produced a comedian version of the music fairy tale using a synthesizer orchestra and many librettistic and musical additions. In 1989, Skeeter and the Wolf , an episode of Muppet Babies , appeared with Skeeter (Peter), Gonzo (the bird), Scooter (the cat), Fozzie (the duck), Nanny (representing the grandfather) and Kermit and Piggy ( the hunters).

On October 19, 1990, the US TV broadcaster FOX first broadcast Buster and the Bad Wolf , the 24th episode of the first season of the Tiny Toon adventure (the German first broadcast of the animated series did not take place until 1992 on Pro7), in which the Tiny Toons are repeatedly disturbed by the bad wolf (and this, of all things, during their music rehearsals), so they say war on the wolf. In this episode, the Tiny Toons are represented by orchestral instruments: Buster Bunny (a trumpet); Babs Bunny (a harp); Furrball, (a violin); Sweetie (a flute); Hamton J. Pig (a tuba); Plucky Duck (a bicycle horn, later a bagpipe, then an organ, and finally a synthesizer); and the wolf (the drums). In 1991 Deutsche Grammophon published the music fairy tale with the rock star Sting as radio play speaker and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under the direction of Claudio Abbado . On May 13, 1993, US television first broadcast the final episode of The Simpsons / Season 4 Krusty, the TV star (the episode was first broadcast in Germany on July 31, 1994 on Pro7), in which guest star Hugh Hefner on wine glasses Leitmotiv from Peter and the Wolf Plays. A version of the text by Loriot from 1993 essentially retains the plot, but expands Prokofiev's text with many humorous details in the typical style of the author. The wolf can speak here too; in the end he asks his captors to bring him back to the forest instead of to the zoo. Even Peter Schickele wrote and published an alternative, komödiante version of the musical fairy tale titled Sneaky Pete and the Wolf , which is more of a Western. In 1995, BMG Entertainment International adapted the story of Peter and the Wolf in a film starring Kirstie Alley (as mother and storyteller), Lloyd Bridges (as grandfather), Ross Malinger (as Peter) and a series of cartoon characters created by Chuck Jones . Prokofiev's music comes alive when Peter wakes up on the first day of spring. In movie scenes interwoven with animation, another boy named Peter discovers the magic of imagination and the spirit of adventure at the same time. The film won an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Primetime Children's Show. George Daugherty (one of the authors) and Janis Diamond also received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination that same year . The production received a Gold Hugo and Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival . In September 1996, the British music producer duo Coldcut released the scratch version of a theme from the music fairy tale in their song "More Beats and Pieces". Finally, in 1997, the choreographer Matthew Hart created a ballet version of the musical fairy tale with dancers from the Royal Ballet School and Sir Anthony Dowell as narrator (who also danced the role of grandfather) .

In 2000, the US non-profit organization Sesame Workshop produced a version of the musical fairy tale with characters from Sesame Street . Titled as Elmo's Musical Adventure , reveals the story with Elmo (Peter), Oscar the Crouch (the cat), Telly Monster (the duck), Zoe (the bird), Bibo (the grandfather) and the two-headed monster (the hunters) in the idea of ​​Baby Bear taking part in a performance conducted by Keith Lockhart with Papa Bear . A year later, National Public Radio produced Peter and the Wolf: A Special Report . This report treats Peter's family history as if it were the discovery of a new story. Robert Siegel, Linda Wertheimer, Ann Taylor, and Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio's All Things Considered Report cover the incident against a performance by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta . In 2003 the Sikorski Musikverlage published a version for mixed choir ( SATB ) by and with Carsten Gerlitz based on Loriot's libretto . Ex-President Bill Clinton , Michael Gorbatschow and Sophia Loren also told the fairy tale of Peter and the Wolf for a music production with the Russian National Orchestra and received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in February 2004 . During her USA tour in 2004 with the Russian National Orchestra, the Russian and American model Tatiana Sorokko performed the fairy tale. In the same year the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra also produced a Klezmer version of the musical fairy tale entitled Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale. and Maurice Sendak as radio play speaker. In 2005 Jelani Eddington (with George Woods as a radio play speaker) released the only adaptation for theater organ as a live concert recording. A year later, Psytrance artist Eliad Grundland published her musical interpretation of the work with the title Land of the Wolves and Neil Tobin with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, a Halloween themed narrative entitled Peter and the Werewolf . In 2007 A Prokofiev Fantasy - Peter And The Wolf followed on DVD. In this cinematic version, the fairy tale is presented in an unusual way using Spitting Image puppets. In addition to the English narration by Sting , the DVD includes the narration in Italian by the actor and multiple Oscar winner Roberto Benigni .

In 2012, the British television station ITV used Peter's leitmotif as the theme music for its coverage of the 2012 European Football Championship , because Prokofiev was born in what is now Ukraine, one of the venues for the European Championship. Wes Hurley's film Peter and the Wolf premiered in 2013 - a graphic adult version of the musical fairy tale with Peter as a gay werewolf hunter and a visual language inspired by Tom of Finland .

German-language recordings / discography

date	teller	orchestra	conductor	Label	Remarks
2015	Campino	Federal Youth Orchestra	Alexander Shelley	Deutsche Grammophon EAN 0028947948940 and EAN 0028947948957	Echo Klassik 2016 for the German edition.
2004	Moritz Stöpel	Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot , Ladies Swing Quartet	Wojciech Rajski	TACET music production EAN 4009850011439
1975	Karlheinz Bohm	Wiener Philharmoniker	Karl Bohm	Deutsche Grammophon 2530 587
1972	Rolf Ludwig	Staatskapelle Dresden	Herbert Kegel	Eterna 8 26 305	The B-side of this in the GDR widespread LP contained the orchestra leader for young people of Benjamin Britten .
1950	Mathias Wieman	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Fritz Lehmann	Deutsche Grammophon - 68443, 68444, 68445	This first ever German-language recording of Peter and the Wolf was released on three 12 "shellac records.
1957	Romy Schneider	Philharmonia Orchestra	Herbert von Karajan	Columbia WC 506

Children's book with audio CD / cassette in German

• 2016: Peter and the Wolf. Translated by Heinz Janisch, with pictures by Birgit Antoni , Annette Betz in Ueberreuter Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2016
• 2016: Peter and the Wolf. Translated by Liselotte Remané, with pictures by Ilon Wikland, Oetinger, Hamburg 2016
• 2015: Musical masterpieces for children: Sergei Prokofjew - Peter and the Wolf: A musical fairy tale for grades 2-4. Copy templates with solutions. Brochure by Juliane Linker as a teaching aid for elementary school, Oldenbourg Schulbuchverlag, Munich 2015
• 2013: Peter and the Wolf. Translated by Werner Thuswaldner, with pictures by Květa Pacovská , Mined 2013
• 2007: Peter and the Wolf, by Michael Fuchs, Lilli Messina, Xavier Naidoo , Kinderbuchverlag Wolff, Bad Soden 2007
• 2007: Sergej S. Prokofieff - Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale. Freely told by Loriot , with pictures by Jörg Müller , 9th edition, Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2007 (A picture book for “young people”: 12 sheets with large-format illustrations and an audio CD).
• 2003: Peter and the Wolf: Lower Level Workshop by Jeanette Frei, Walti Bräm, Pfäffikon ZH 2003, ISBN 3-03715-044-0 .
• 1981: Peter and the Wolf , arranged as a shadow play and edited by Friedel Doért. With an audio cassette, theater working group of the Carl-Sonnenschein-Schule, school for the mentally handicapped of the Märkisches Kreis Iserlohn-Sümmern. Stein'sche Buchhandlung, Werl 1981, ISBN 3-920-98011-5 .
• 1979: Peter and the Wolf Translated and with pictures by Erna Voigt, Annette Betz in Ueberreuter Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1979
• 1958: Petja i volk, Peter and the Wolf Translated by Lieselotte Remané , with pictures by Frans Haacken , Holz, Berlin / Parabel, Munich 1958, OCLC 73651001 ; 1968, DNB 575683015 ; Reprint: Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim / Basel 2003, ISBN 3-407-79318-9
• 1955/56: Peter and the Wolf , with pictures by Allan Howard, Lucas Cranach Verlag, Munich undated [1955/56 or 1959?], DNB 453862764

Film adaptations

Walt Disney (1946)

Walt Disney produced an animated version of the episode film Make Mine Music in 1946 with Sterling Holloway as the narrator. There are numerous changes compared to the original story: for example, hunters and animals have names (the bird “Sascha”, the duck “Sonja” and the cat “Iwan”), Peter and his friends want to catch the wolf from the start and at the end the narrator reveals, in order to make the story more child-friendly, that the duck Sonja was never eaten by the wolf. The film received the Grand Prix for Best Animation at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1946.

Anatoly Karanovich (1976)

The Russian director Anatoli Karanowitsch realized the Soyuzmult cartoon Пéтя и Волк ("Peter and the Wolf") shortly before his death in 1976 with a young pioneer as radio play speaker and the young pioneer orchestra of the music school at the Moscow Conservatory .

Chuck Jones (1995)

In December 1995, BMG Entertainment International brought up the story of Peter and the Wolf in an award-winning film ( Emmy Winner 1996, Outstanding Primetime Children's Show) starring Kirstie Alley (as mother and storyteller), Lloyd Bridges (as grandfather), Ross Malinger (as Peter) as well as a series of cartoon characters brought to life by Chuck Jones . Prokofiev's music comes alive when Peter wakes up on the first day of spring. In the animation interwoven movie scenes another boy named Peter discovers the magic of imagination and spirit of adventure. The film was also nominated for an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Musical Direction. George Daugherty (one of the authors) and Janis Diamond were also nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award that year . The production received a Gold Hugo and Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival .

British-Polish co-production (2006)

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The free adaptation by British director Suzie Templeton won the 2008 Oscar for best animated short film. The characters have been changed significantly, as has the underlying fable: The hunters are dangerous youngsters and Peter releases the wolf again in the end. Overall, the work of the in took stop-motion twisted technique puppet animation film five years to complete, Prokofiev's original music was by the Philharmonia Orchestra , conducted by Mark Stephenson recorded.

More productions

• 1981: Shire Films, approx. 27 minute educational film with Ray Bolger as narrator
• 1996: Dingo Pictures , approx. 19-minute animated short film

literature

• Natalia Saz : Novellas of my life. (Original title: Novelly moej žizni / Новеллы моей жизни , Moscow 1973, translated by Erich Ahrndt), extended new edition, Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-362-00004-5 (Book 1 and Book 2: Natalia Saz writes, among others about herself and her Moscow Children's Music Theater as well as about encounters with Otto Klemperer , Dmitri Kabalewski , Walter Felsenstein , Albert Einstein and many others).
• Reiner Scheuch: Prokofieff, "Peter and the Wolf" . Oldenburg 1965, OCLC 256722454 (thesis University of Education Oldenburg, 1965, 73 pages).
• Thomas Schipperges: Sergej Prokofjew. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-50516-9 .
• Friedbert Streller: Sergej Prokofjew and his time . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2003, ISBN 3-89007-554-1 .

Web links

• Peter and the Wolf at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Other film adaptations of Peter and the Wolf in the Search by Rotten Tomatoes
• Peter and the Wolf: Classical Music for Children ; The great world of knowledge on wasistwas.de
• Peter and the Wolf in Elementary School
• Peter and the Wolf : Teaching samples for class 3 music lessons on Schlaukopf.de
• Peter and the Wolf ; Teaching samples for music lessons on 4teachers.de
• Пéтя и волк ; Teaching rehearsal for Russian music lessons in 2nd grade; Video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf (1938) ; Piano prelude by Sergei Prokofjew at Walt Disney as a video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf (1946) ; Cartoon by Walt Disney as a video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf ; Augsburger Puppenkiste 1967 as a video on YouTube
• Пéтя и волк (1976) ; Anatoly Karanovich animated film as a video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf with Loriot as speaker; Concert recording from 1993 as a video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf (1995) ; Feature / cartoon by Chuck Jones as video on YouTube
• Peter and the Wolf (2006) ; Animated film as a video on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Schipperges: Sergej Prokofjew. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-50516-9 .
2. ↑ Harlow Robinson: Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' is 50 Years Old . In: The New York Times . November 10, 1985 ( nytimes.com ).
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7. ↑ Sally Banes: Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn. 1987, ISBN 0-585-37111-3 .
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10. ↑ Chris Tweney: Cheese doodlers - The slice 'n' dice beatnology of Coldcut. ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Boston Phoenix. January 5, 1998.
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13. ↑ Peter and the Wolf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
14. ↑ Bundesverband Musikindustrie: "Klassik für Kinder": Campino receives ECHO KLASSIK 2016 together with the Bundesjugendorchester and conductor Alexander Shelley . ( echoklassik.de [accessed on August 2, 2018]).
15. ^ First edition: Sauerländer, Aargau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2724-2 with a long-playing record
16. ↑ Peter and the Wolf. In: IMDb
17. ↑ “And the Oscar goes to… Peter & the Wolf” (arthaus-musik.com) ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. viewed November 19, 2010 
18. ↑ Making of Peter and the Wolf. Recording of a broadcast on 3sat on October 3, 2010
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