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Do Not Wake, My Friend

Не просыпайся мой друг

Sketch (?1891–92).

Catalogue References TH 237; ČW 512
Date )?) December 1891–January 1892 (unrealized)
Text Unknown
Language Russian
Key A minor
Instrumentation Chorus (SATB)
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (sketches only)

History

This short thematic sketch is included with sketches for the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and presumably dates from December 1891 or January 1892. In the last few bars the soprano part is set to the words "Do not wake, my friend".

From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p. 415
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston

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