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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor, Op. 50, was written in Rome between December 1881 and late January 1882. It is subtitled À la mémoire d’un grand artiste [In memory of a great artist], in reference to Nikolai Rubinstein, his close friend and mentor, who had died on 23 March 1881. It is scored for piano, violin, and cello.
The Grand Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 37, was written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878. Though initially received with critical acclaim, the sonata has struggled to maintain a solid position in the modern repertoire. [1] Nevertheless, the sonata has been recorded numerous times and is recognized as one of the composer's ...
The Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 80, was written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1865, his last year as a student at the St Petersburg Conservatory. The sonata in its original form was not published in Tchaikovsky's lifetime; it was published in 1900 by P. Jurgenson, and given the posthumous opus number 80. [1]
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) Op. 4 Valse-caprice in D major, for piano (1868) Op. 5 Romance in F minor, for piano (1868) Op. 6 6 Romances (1869), including "None but the lonely heart"
Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with two movements (Haydn, Beethoven), some contain five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata, Czerny's Piano Sonata No. 1, Godowsky's Piano Sonata) or even more movements.
Except for a piano sonata written while he was a composition student and a second much later in his career, Tchaikovsky's solo piano works consist of character pieces. [67] While his best known set of these works is The Seasons, [68] the compositions in his last set, the Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72, are extremely varied and at times surprising. [69]
What is known as the Andante and Finale had its genesis as the slow movement and finale of Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, a work he started writing in 1892.He abandoned the symphony in December 1892, but after his nephew Bob Davydov chided him, he began reworking it into a piano concerto, his third, which he promised to the French pianist Louis Diémer.
Souvenir de Hapsal consists of three pieces for the piano: [3] Ruines d'un château, E minor; Scherzo, F major; Chant sans paroles, F major. The Scherzo was first performed by Nikolai Rubinstein on 27 February 1868. The conductor Max Erdmannsdörfer orchestrated Chant sans paroles, which pleased Tchaikovsky so much that he conducted it himself. [4]