Composers who used it for the musical saw were: Arthur Honegger (Short opera "Antigone", 1924/1927), Ernst Krenek (opera "Jonny spielt auf", 1927), Dmitri Shostakovich ("The Nose" (1929), "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" (1934), and film music for "The New Babylon" (1929)), Aram Khachaturian (Piano Concerto 1936), and Hans Werner Henze (opera "Elegy for young lovers", 1961).