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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.
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"
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.
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.
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932) Romantic, Impressionist: Emile-Robert Blanchet: 1877: 1943: Swiss: Sergei Bortkiewicz: 1877: 1952: Ukrainian: York Bowen: 1884: 1961: English: Romantic: Frank Bridge: 1912: 1941: English: Late ...
The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B ♭ minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. [1] It was revised in 1879 and in 1888. It was first performed on October 25, 1875, in Boston by Hans von Bülow after Tchaikovsky's desired pianist, Nikolai Rubinstein , criticised the piece.
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879–1880 and dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. But Rubinstein never played it, as he died in March 1881, and the work has never ...