Soyuzmultfilm Moscow, 1954
THE GOAT MUSICIAN /a joke/
screenwriter Sergey Mikhalkov director Boris Dyozhkin composer A. Mosolov
art directors Aleksandr Vinokurov, Valentina Vasilenko, Pyotr Repkin, camera A. Astafyev, sound Georgiy Martynyuk
animators D. Belov, B. Stepantsev, B. Chani, Lidiya Reztsova, Fyodor Hitruk, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, V. Arbekov, Faina Yepifanova
aechnical assistant G. Brodskaya montage V. Ivanova, background artists Irina Svetlitsa, Pyotr Korobayev
Hello my friend, how are you?
As before, buddy. I still can't find a theme.
Where are you looking for it?
In others' works, from these records... From these music sheets!
Listen to me, friend. I will provide you with a theme,
But we shall share the royalties half-and-half.
If the theme suits me, really, I will pay up fully.
You want a theme? Here it is!
[The melody is a well-known children's song:] Grandma had a lil' grey goat, She loved it dearly, She let it walk by itself in the woods...
There a pack of wolves devoured it, All that was left were the horns and the hooves.
Be-eh!... Wonderful!
Simply tremendous!
This will be no trivial thing!
I'll develop these motifs...
In a symphony...
A sinfonietta!
Composer's concert Mè. Goat Sinfonietta opus 2
I hope that my programmatic work
will be appreciated for its merit and will be understood.
I am worried of what the double-faced wolf will say.
Our Grey Wolf is an excellent musicologist.
So when will your debt to me be paid?
Later. Later. In due time.
For this concert, I see, Our whole forest has gathered.
Yes! There's a lot of interest in the goat's music.
He kept it secret for so many years and now the result is here.
From now on, he will be famous and rich.
Friends! Today's concert,
created by the venerable Goat, will touch upon these issues:
Life, death, romance, love, good and evil.
Who wants this kind of music?!
Making a mountain out of a molehill!
I won't even think of sharing the fee!
Does this mean that I have given you the theme for free?
I thought you were a goat! I see now you are a pig!
You know, after all, how much I need the money!
From the goat remained only the horns and the hooves...
Indeed! Indeed! The horns and the hooves!
The End Subs by Vissashpa & Eus (Jul 2016) revised by Niffiwan (Mar 2024)