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List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote many works well-known to the general classical public, including Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. These, along with two of his four concertos, three of his symphonies and two of his ten operas, are among his most familiar works. Almost as popular are the Manfred Symphony, Francesca da Rimini, the Capriccio Italien, and the Serenade for Strings.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Works by opus number

Works with opus numbers are listed in this section, together with their dates of composition. 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]

Opp. 75–80 were published posthumously.

Works by genre

Ballets

Operas

Symphonies

Concertos and concertante pieces

Other orchestral works

  • Ode an die Freude (Schiller), für SATB Solo, SATB und großes Orchester (1865)

Program music and commissioned pieces

Orchestral suites and Serenade

Incidental music

  • Dmitri the Pretender and Vassily Shuisky (1867), incidental music to Alexander Ostrovsky's play Dmitri the Pretender
  • The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), Op. 12 (1873), incidental music for Ostrovsky's play of the same name. Ostrovsky adapted and dramatized a popular Russian fairy tale,[4] and the score that Tchaikovsky wrote for it was always one of his own favorite works. It contains much vocal music, but it is not a cantata or an opera.
  • Montenegrins Receiving News of Russia's Declaration of War on Turkey (1880), music for a tableau.
  • The Voyevoda (1886), incidental music for the Domovoy scene from Ostrovsky's A Dream on the Volga
  • Hamlet, Op. 67b (1891), incidental music for Shakespeare's play. The score uses music borrowed from Tchaikovsky's overture of the same name, as well as from his Symphony No. 3, and from The Snow Maiden, in addition to original music that he wrote specifically for a stage production of Hamlet. The two vocal selections are a song that Ophelia sings in the throes of her madness and a song for the First Gravedigger to sing as he goes about his work.

Piano

  • Two Pieces, Op. 1 (1867)
  • Souvenir de Hapsal, Op. 2, 3 pieces (1867)
  • Valse-caprice in D major, Op. 4 (1868)
  • Romance in F minor, Op. 5 (1868)
  • Valse-scherzo in A, Op. 7 (1870)
  • Capriccio in G♭, Op. 8 (1870)
  • 3 Morceaux, Op. 9 (1870)
    • 1. Rêverie
    • 2. Polka de salon
    • 3. Mazurka de salon
  • 2 Morceaux, Op. 10 (1871)
    • 1. Nocturne
    • 2. Humoresque
  • 6 Pieces, Op. 19 (1873)
    • 1. Rêverie du soir [Вечерние грезы] (G minor)
    • 2. Scherzo humoristique [Юмористическое скерцо] (D major)
    • 3. Feuillet d'album [Листок из альбом] (D major)
    • 4. Nocturne [Ноктюрн] (C♯ minor)
    • 5. Capriccioso [Каприччиозо] (B♭ major)
    • 6. Thème original et variations [Тема и вариации] (F major)
  • 6 Morceaux, Op. 21 (1873)
  • The Seasons (Les saisons), Op. 37a (1876), 12 pieces
  • Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 37 (1878)
  • Album pour enfants, Op. 39, 24 pieces for piano (1878)
  • 12 Morceaux de difficulté moyenne, Op. 40 (1878)
  • Six Morceaux, Op. 51 (1882)
  • Dumka, Russian rustic scene in C minor for piano, Op. 59 (1886)
  • 18 Morceaux for piano, Op. 72 (1892). Some of these pieces were used in a cello concerto arrangement by Gaspar Cassadó.
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in C♯ minor, Op. posth. 80 (1865)
  • The Volunteer Fleet March in C major, TH 140; ČW 149 - was written in 1878 to help raise money for victims of the war between Russia and Turkey.

Chamber music

Choral music

A considerable quantity of choral music (about 25 items), including:

Arrangements of the works of others[8]

More information Composer, Work and forces ...

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Works - Tchaikovsky Research".
  2. [2]
    "Detailed Calendar". www.geocities.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Paul Collin". Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. [4]
    Russian Fairy Tales, Spring 1998: Snow Maiden Archived 1997-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    John Warrack, Tchaikovsky, Comprehensive List of Works: Choral Works, p. 273
  6. [6]
    9 Sacred Pieces (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
  7. [7]
    "Tchaikovsky Research: Nine Church Pieces (TH78)". Tchaikovsky Research. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  8. [8]
    John Warrack, Tchaikovsky, Comprehensive List of Works, p. 279

Notes

  1. [a 1]
    Not related to the much later symphonic ballad The Voyevoda, Op. 78.
  2. [a 2]
    Revised later as Cherevichki
  3. [a 3]
    Originally performed on a double-bill with The Nutcracker
  4. [a 4]
    The aria is now believed to have been written by Gluck, from his opera Paride ed Elena: "O, del mio dolce ardor (Gluck)". Tchaikovsky Research. Retrieved 20 May 2020.

Bibliography

  • ed Abraham, Gerald, Music of Tchaikovsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1946). ISBN n/a.
    • Abraham, Gerald, "Operas and Incidental Music"
    • Alshvang, A., tr. I. Freiman, "The Songs"
    • Cooper, Martin, "The Symphonies"
    • Dickinson, A.E.F., "The Piano Music"
    • Evans, Edwin, "The Ballets"
    • Mason, Colin, "The Chamber Music"
    • Wood, Ralph W., "Miscellaneous Orchestral Works"
  • Brown, David, ed. Stanley Sadie, "Tchaikokvsky, Pyotr Ilyich," The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1980), 20 vols. ISBN 0-333-23111-2.
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978). ISBN 0-393-07535-2.
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Crisis Years, 1874-1878, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983). ISBN 0-393-01707-9.
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Years of Wandering, 1878-1885, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986). ISBN 0-393-02311-7.
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Final Years, 1885-1893, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991). ISBN 0-393-03099-7.
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music (New York: Pegasus Books, 2007). ISBN 0-571-23194-2.
  • Maes, Francis, tr. Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans, A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002). ISBN 0-520-21815-9.
  • Schonberg, Harold C., Lives of the Great Composers (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 3rd ed. 1997).
  • Steinberg, Michael, The Symphony (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • 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.
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