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The Siskin

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Album leaf (1876)

Catalogue References TH 196 ; ČW 319b. (as "Siskin, Siskin")
Date September 1876
Text Composer
Language Russian
Key C major
Tempo/Section Listing Moderato assai e con passione (C major, 9 bars)
Instrumentation High voice + Piano
Autograph Location Moscow: Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (ф. 1949)
First Publication Moscow: 1961 (facsimile only)
Неизвестный Чайковский (2009), p. 202
Average Duration 30 seconds
Dedication Mariia Alekseevna Golovina (d. 1878)
Note Entry in an album belonging to Mariia Golovina

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