"Shostakovich wrote about 50 movie scores, though most were for eminently forgettable propaganda films. For Shostakovich the Silly Little Mouse film project must have been a relief on all levels.
The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse is one of the favorite tales by the popular Russian children's writer Samuil Marshak. It is about a baby mouse who will not go to sleep, even to its mother's lullabies. The desperate mama mouse brings in several other animals to sing to the mouse and unfortunately includes a hungry cat in the list of serenaders, who is all too successful at putting the baby mouse to sleep.
The director Tsekhanovsky proposed to make an animated film out of this tale and asked Shostakovich to provide the music. The composer relished the idea of giving different animals their own characteristic variations on the mouse-mother's lullaby. In addition, he was able to write the score first, since the animation was to be drawn in time to a sound track rather than the other way around." (allmusic)
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