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Andante and Finale (Tchaikovsky)
Tchaikovsky's Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra were initially intended as the slow movement and finale of the Symphony in E flat, a work he started in 1892 but eventually abandoned. Tchaikovsky began reworking the sketches for these two movements into the the second and third movements of a piano concerto he promised to French pianist Louis Diémer. The composer finished the first movement of this concerto, then decided to leave the work as a single-movement ''Allegro de... More »
Symphony in E flat
Commenced after the Symphony No. 5, this work was intended initially to be the composer's next symphony. Tchaikovsky abandoned this work in 1892, only to reuse much of it in the Third Piano Concerto and Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra. A reconstruction of the original symphony from the sketches and various reworkings was accomplished during 1951–1955 by the Soviet composer Semyon Bogatyrev, who brought the symphony into finished, fully orchestrated form and issued the score as... More »
Cherevichki
''Cherevichki'' also known as ''The Empress's Slippers'', or ''The Little Shoes'' is an opera in 4 acts and 8 scenes by Peter Tchaikovsky. More »
Mazeppa (opera)
''Mazeppa'', also ''Mazepa'' is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by Victor Burenin, based on Pushkin's poem ''Poltava''. ''Mazeppa'' is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, abduction, political persecution, execution, and vengeful murder. Action takes place in the Ukraine at the beginning 18th century. Protagonists are the historical figures Ivan Stepanovich Mazeppa – the Hetman of the Cossacks of the Ukraine, and Vasily Leontivych Kochubey , a very... More »
Eugene Onegin (opera)
{{for|the novel by Pushkin|Eugene Onegin}} ''Eugene Onegin'' is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer, based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. First performance: Malyi Theatre, Moscow, 1879. ''Eugene Onegin'' is a well-known example of lyric opera; the libretto very closely follows Pushkin's original, retaining much of his poetry, to which Tchaikovsky adds music of a dramatic nature. More »
Concert Fantasy (Tchaikovsky)
The Concert Fantasia in G, Op.56, for piano and orchestra, was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky between June and October 1884. This virtuoso work started out as a new piano concerto; however, Tchaikovsky soon abandoned this idea. At the same time, Tchaikovsky was working on the composition of his Third Suite for orchestra, also in G major, and he used material from the abandoned first movement of that suite for the Concert Fantasia's second movement. More »
Cello Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
Unfinished works have always fascinated composers, music theorists, and historians; Tchaikovsky's projected Cello Concerto is no different. After the composer's death, the sketches to the Concerto were found among the sketches to the Pathetique Symphony. The 60-bar piano score was only a part of a cello concerto promised to Julius Poplavskii and Anatoli Brandukov by Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky. The Concerto lay untouched until 2006, when a Ukrainian composer and cellist Yuriy Leonovich and a... More »
Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
The Symphony No. 5 in E minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888. It was first performed, under Tchaikovsky's own baton, in St Petersburg on November 6, 1888. It is in four movements: # Andante — Allegro con anima # Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza # Valse: Allegro moderato # Andante maestoso— Allegro vivace Similar to the Symphony No. 4, the piece is in cyclic form, using a "motto" theme; unlike the Fourth, however, the theme occurs in each... More »
Voyevoda (opera)
''Voyevoda'' or ''Voevoda'' is an opera in 3 acts and 4 scenes, Op. 3 , by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to the libretto by Alexander Ostrovsky after the latter's play ''Dream on the Volga'' . More »
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is one of the classical repertoire's famous ballets, with the musical score composed by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky on 25 May 1888 about a possible musical treatment of a ballet based on Charles Perrault's 'La Belle au bois Dormant'. Tchaikovsky did not hesitate to accept the commission although he was aware that his only previous ballet, ''Swan Lake'' met with little enthusiasm at... More »
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