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Song of Triumphant Love

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Sketches (1887).

• An urealised project, probably dating from February 1887.
• Text by Ivan Turgenev, after his novel of the same name.

History

Sketches for this vocal work are contained in Tchaikovsky's Notebook for 1887. The composer’s diary entry for 1 February 1887 mentions that he was reading Turgenev’s novel of the same name [1].

The words do not appear in the musical sketch.

From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p. 409
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston

Notes:

1. Дневники П. И. Чайковского (Moscow, 1923), p. 125 [back]