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The Seasons, Op. 37a [1] (also seen as Op. 37b; Russian: Времена года; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a suite of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia.
Warrack, John, Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969). Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 78-105437. Warrack, John, Tchaikovsky (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973). SBN 684-13558-2. Wiley, Roland John, Tchaikovsky's Ballets (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). ISBN 0-19-816249-9
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] (/ tʃ aɪ ˈ k ɒ f s k i / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.
Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1. [1] Eugene Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music of a dramatic nature ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Troika (November), from The Seasons, Op. 37b May 3, 1920 RCA Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Troika (November), from The Seasons, Op. 37b April 11, 1928 RCA Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 40, No. 8 April 5, 1923 RCA Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Lullaby, Op. 16, No. 1 February 26, 1942 RCA Traditional
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, circa 1875; portrait by Charles Reutlinger. Capriccio italien, Op. 45, is a 15-minute fantasy for orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.Composed between January and May 1880, it premiered on 18 December that year (New System) in Moscow with Nikolay Rubinstein conducting the Orchestra of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. [1]
Iosif Kotek died on 4 January 1885, aged only 29. Tchaikovsky was informed by telegraph, and had the painful task of informing Kotek's parents of their son's death. [31] Kotek's compositions include "Six Practical Studies for the Violin", Op. 8. [32] Tchaikovsky died on 6 November 1893, which would have been Iosif Kotek's 38th birthday.
[8] The fact that he took more than five weeks to complete orchestrating the work, despite his sometimes working six hours a day on it, shows the great care he took over this operation. [1] Tchaikovsky finished the suite on October 25. Max Erdmannsdörfer conducted the work the following February in Moscow. However, if the composer's eagerness ...