- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Years: 26.06.1899 - 15.01.1977
- Title: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Genre: Operas
- Instrumentation: soloists, mixed choir, symphony orchestra: 2232, 4221, 1+2, harp, strings
- Number of movements: 47
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Titles of movements:
Act 1
Picture 1:
1. Introduction
2. Mall's Work Song
3. Herd Coming Home
4. Ants's Song
5. Scene with Mall and Ants
6. Scene with Toomas and Mihkel
7. Jurymen's Scene
8. Brawl Scene
9. Intermedium: "Ants's Dream"
Picture 2:
10. In Greenwood
11. Ants Arrives
12. Sleepfairies' Call
13. Sleepfairies' Song
14. Nightingale's Song
15. Frogs' Serenade
16. Ants' Work Song
17. Wind's Dance with Leaves
18. Dwarves Song
19. Dwarves Dance
20. Bear Dance
21. Old Nick and Stiletto Beard Arrive
22. Old Nick's and Stiletto Beard's Silhouette-Pantomime
23. Ants's Bargaining Song
24. Old Nick's Representative Song
Act 2
Picture 3:
25. Ants and Old Nick Competing
26. Deciding by Toss I
27. Throwing a Club
28. Deciding by Toss II
29. Blowing the Horn
30. Measuring Strength
31. Singing Competition
32. Housewife Arrives with Children
33. Children's Mocking Song
34. Intermedium: "Mall's Yearning Song"
Picture 4:
35. Introduction "Tricks Continue"
36. Guarding the Garner Door
37. Mall Arrives
38. Bringing Old Nick's Money
39. Begilding the Beard
40. Old Nick and Housewife
41. Bee Workers Arrive
42. Bee Workers Grumble
43. Scene with Jurymen
44. Scene with Toomas and Mihkel
45. Mocking
46. Scene with Ants and Mall
47. Final Song - Librettist: Andres Särev after August Kitzberg's play
- Incipit (lyrics): Veere, veere, veskikene, keerle, kivikene
- Year: 1962.
Manuscripts
- Type of manuscript: Photo copy
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 524
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_9335 M 236:2/26
- Additional notes: Act 1
- Type of manuscript: Photo copy
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 208
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_9335 M 236:2/27
- Additional notes: Act 2
- Type of manuscript: Photo copy
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 484
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_9335 M 236:2/28
- Additional notes: In Latvian
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 266
- Date: 1.10.1960-1962
- Status: Finished
- Draft: Yes
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_9422 M 236:2/29
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 290
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_9335 M 236:2/25
- Type of manuscript: Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 470
- Date: 1960-1962
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Music Foundation
- Number: Folder No. 523
- Digital copy: Pdf
- Digital archive: Estonian Music Information Centre
- Additional notes: text in Latvian language
- Type of manuscript: Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Päts, Riho
- Work: Clever-Ants and Old Devil
- Number of pages: 906
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Music Foundation
- Number: Folder No. 668
- Digital copy: Pdf
- Digital archive: Estonian Music Information Centre
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