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TH 131

Three Pieces

Три пьесы

For piano solo, Op. 9 (1870).

1. Rêverie
   Греэы (D major).
   • Dedicated to Nadezhda Muromtseva.
2. Polka de salon
   Салонная полька (B-flat major).
   • Dedicated to Aleksandra Zograf.
3. Mazurka de salon
   Салонная мазурка (D minor).
   • Dedicated to Aleksandr Diubiuk.

• Composed October 1870. No. 3 is based on the Mazurka for the play Dmitrii the Pretender and Vasilii Shuiskii (1867).
• Scored for solo piano (2 hands).
• Nos. 1 and 2 were first performed in Moscow, 16/28 March 1871, by Nikolai Rubinstein.
• Average duration: 12m 30s (set).

History

Evidently composed in October 1870 in Moscow. In a letter to Ivan Klimenko of 26 October 1870, Tchaikovsky reported: "I’ve written three new pieces" [1]. For the third piece - Mazurka de Salon - Tchaikovsky arranged music he had written for Aleksandr Ostrovskii's dramatic chronicle Dmitrii the Pretender and Vasilii Shuiskii.

The first piece - Rêverie - is dedicated to the pianist Nadezhda Muromtseva; the second - Polka de salon - to the pianist Aleksandra Zograf; the third - Mazurka de salon - to the pianist and composer Aleksandr Diubiuk.

Rêverie and Polka de salon were played for the first time by Nikolai Rubinstein on 16 March 1871 at a concert of Tchaikovsky's works in the Little Hall of the Nobles' Society in Moscow.

Published by Petr Jurgenson in March 1871.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 397
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

Notes:

1. Letter 213 to Ivan Klimenko, 26 October/7 November 1870 [back]

See also:

• 3 Pieces, Op. 9 page on the Internet Music Score Library Project (external site)

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