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By the River, By the Bridge

Возле речки, возле моста

Piece on the theme of the folk-song (1862).

  • Composed autumn 1862.
  • Scored for Piano solo (2 hands).
  • Dedicated to Herman Laroche
  • Lost.

History

Composed in the autumn of 1862 in Saint Petersburg, during Tchaikovsky’s years as a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Herman Laroche recalled that: "At one of the Musical Society concerts around this time, we became acquainted with Konstantin Liadov’s choral fantasia on the theme "By the river, by the bridge"'. Inspired by this, Petr Il’ich and dedicated to me a humorous piano piece on the same theme, all contained on a single page" [1].

There are no other references to his work among surviving documents, and the piece remains unknown.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 386
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

References:
  1. H. A. Laroche, Собрание музыкально-критических статей. Том 2, часть 1 (Moscow; Petrograd, 1924), p. 42 [back]