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For a complete list of Tchaikovsky's works, including those without opus numbers, see here. [1] For more detail on dates of composition, see here. [2] Op. 1 Two Pieces for piano (1867) Scherzo à la russe in B ♭ major; Impromptu in E ♭ minor; Op. 2 Souvenir de Hapsal, 3 pieces for piano (1867) Op. 3 The Voyevoda, opera (1868)
Writing about Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty in an open letter to impresario Sergei Diaghilev that was printed in the Times of London, composer Igor Stravinsky contended that Tchaikovsky's music was as Russian as Pushkin's verse or Glinka's song, since Tchaikovsky "drew unconsciously from the true, popular sources" of the Russian race ...
Tchaikovsky's works were performed frequently, with few delays between their composition and first performances; the publication from 1867 onward of his songs and great piano music for the home market also helped boost the composer's popularity. [74] During the late 1860s, Tchaikovsky began to compose operas.
Songs by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (3 P) Suites by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (10 P) Pages in category "Compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky"
The opus Six Romances was composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) for voice and piano, and was published as Opus 38 later that year. Of these six songs, "Don Juan's Serenade" was the most successful, becoming one of the best-known works among the approximately 100 romances that Tchaikovsky composed during his lifetime.
It was first performed on October 25, 1875, in Boston by Hans von Bülow after Tchaikovsky's desired pianist, Nikolai Rubinstein, criticised the piece. Rubinstein later withdrew his criticism and became a fervent champion of the work. It is one of the most popular of Tchaikovsky's compositions and among the best known of all piano concerti. [2]
The Seasons was commenced shortly after the premiere of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and continued while he was completing his first ballet, Swan Lake. [3]In 1875, Nikolay Matveyevich Bernard, the editor of the St. Petersburg music magazine Nouvellist, commissioned Tchaikovsky to write 12 short piano pieces, one for each month of the year.
Here Tchaikovsky harnessed the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic quirks of Ukrainian folk music to produce an opening movement massive in scale, intricate in structure and complex in texture—what Brown calls "one of the most solid structures Tchaikovsky ever fashioned" [47] —and a finale that, with the folk song "The Crane" offered in an ever ...