Instrumentation
- Mussorgsky orchestration
- Strings: violins I & II, violas, cellos, double basses
- Woodwinds: 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling english horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
- Brass: 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba
- Percussion: timpani, bass drum, snare drum, tambourine, cymbals
- Other: piano, harp
- On/Offstage instruments: 1 trumpet, bells, tam-tam
- Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration
- Strings: violins I & II, violas, cellos, double basses
- Woodwinds: 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling english horn), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons
- Brass: 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba
- Percussion: timpani, bass drum, snare drum, tambourine, cymbals
- Other: piano, harp
- On/Offstage instruments: 1 trumpet, bells, tam-tam
- Shostakovich orchestration
- Strings: violins I & II, violas, cellos, double basses
- Woodwinds: 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, english horn, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling e-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon)
- Brass: 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba
- Percussion: timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, tam-tam, triangle, bells, glockenspiel, xylophone
- Other: piano, harp, celesta
- On/Offstage instruments: 4 trumpets, 2 cornets, 2 horns, 2 baritone horns, 2 euphoniums, 2 tubas, balalaika and domra ad libitum
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