Allegro in c minor tchaikovsky biography
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Allegro in C minor
The Allegro in C minor, for piano and string sextet (TH 159 ; ČW 327), was written in 1863 or 1864 as an exercise while Tchaikovsky was a student in Anton Rubinstein's composition classes at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Instrumentation
Scored for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, and piano [1].
Movements and Duration
There is one movement: Allegro (C minor, 43 bars), lasting around 2 to 3 minutes in performance.
Publication
The work was published for the first time in 1967 in volume 58 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works, edited by Irina Iordan.
Autographs
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which includes the Allegro vivace in B-flat major and Adagio molto in E-flat major) is now preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a1, No. 129).
Recordings
- See: Discography
Notes and References
- ↑Although the manuscript clearly indicates the string parts are written for solo instruments, the work is often performed for piano with string orchestra.
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Tchaikovsky was visiting his sister in Kamianka in Ukraine (known as Little Russia during the tsarist period) in the summer of 1872 when he began work on his Second Symphony. Influenced by Glinka’s use of folksongs in Kamarinskaya, which he considered to be fundamental to Russian symphonic music, and folksongs he heard in that region, he inserted three into movements one, two, and four of Opus 17. In order, these are “Down the Mother Volga” “Spin o My Spinner”, and “The Crane.”
Noting this, the sobriquet “Little Russian” was coined by his friend and music critic Nikolay Kashkin. Never again would he quote folksongs as extensively as he did in this work. Although the premier was a success on February 7, 1873, Tchaikovsky decided to revise the symphony in 1879, noting that “I am not completely satisfied with the first three movements….[I intend] to turn this immature and mediocre symphony into a good one.” The new version appeared in 1881, and like the first, was acclaimed.
The first movement opens with “Down the Mother Volga” sung by solo horn and echoed by bassoon. The poet Sergey Ysenin noted that this music embraces the joy and despair of the Russian character. In part, the lyrics read:
Down the Volga, Mother Volga
Over the wide sheet of water,
There arises a thunders
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Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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