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TH 126

Valse-Caprice

Вальс-каприс

D major, Op. 4 (1868).

  • Composed October 1868.
  • Scored for Piano solo (2 hands).
  • First performed in Moscow, 8/20 April 1869, by Anton Door.
  • Dedicated to Anton Door.
  • Average duration: 8m 50s.

History

Probably composed in October 1868 in Moscow, shortly before the Romance, Op. 5, on the basis that both works were written in the same copy-book. In December that year the composer wrote to Modest Tchaikovsky: "In a few days two of my piano pieces will appear in print" [1]. One of these pieces was the Valse-caprice, Op. 4. and the other was the Romance, Op. 5.

Tchaikovsky dedicated the Valse-caprice to his colleague at the Moscow Conservatory, the virtuoso pianist Professor Anton Door, who played it for the first time in a solo recital on 8 April 1869.

Published by Petr Jurgenson in 1868.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 392
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

Notes:
  1. Letter 124 to Modest Tchaikovsky, mid/late December 1868 [back]
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