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	==Autographs==		==Autographs==
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	==Recordings==		==Recordings==

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	Tchaikovsky's melodrama for the Domovoy's monologue in [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]'s comedy '''''The Voyevoda''''' (Воевода) was written in January 1886 ([[TH]] 22 ; [[ČW]] 20) <ref name="note1"/>. It should not to be confused with Tchaikovsky's first opera, ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)\|The Voyevoda]]'' (1867-68), which was based on the same story.		Tchaikovsky's melodrama for the Domovoy's monologue in [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]'s comedy '''''The Voyevoda''''' (Воевода) was written in January 1886 ([[TH]] 22 ; [[ČW]] 20) <ref name="note1"/>. It should not be confused with Tchaikovsky's first opera, ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)\|The Voyevoda]]'' (1867-68), which was based on the same story.

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	==Composition==		==Composition==
	In a letter of 6/18 January 1886, [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] passed on to Tchaikovsky a request from [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]], to write music for the Domovoy's monologue in the revised version of his play ''The Voyevoda'' (1885), "which has some delightful verses. These verses should of course be set to quiet music in the orchestra, which should depict ''the sounds of night''" <ref name="note2"/>. Tchaikovsky responded favourably and immediately began composition, noting down the themes noted down on [[Shpazhinsky]]'s letter, completing the instrumentation four days later on 17/29 January at [[Maydanovo]] <ref name="note3"/>.		In a letter of 6/18 January 1886, [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] passed on to Tchaikovsky a request from [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]] to write music for the Domovoy's monologue in the revised version of his play ''The Voyevoda'' (1885), "which has some delightful verses. These verses should of course be set to quiet music in the orchestra, which should depict ''the sounds of night''" <ref name="note2"/>. Tchaikovsky responded favourably and immediately began composition, noting down the themes noted down on [[Shpazhinsky]]'s letter, completing the instrumentation four days later on 17/29 January at [[Maydanovo]] <ref name="note3"/>.

	[[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]] commissioned the remaining musical numbers for the piece from his friend the composer [[Vladimir Kashperov]].		[[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]] commissioned the remaining musical numbers for the piece from his friend the composer [[Vladimir Kashperov]].

	==Performances==		==Performances==
	The production was scheduled for 12/24 January, but was postponed until 19/31 January 1886, on the stage of the Maly Theatre in [[Moscow]], as a benefit performance for the artist Konstantin Rybakov. This seems to have been the only occasion on which Tchaikovsky's melodrama was performed during his lifetime.		The production was scheduled for 12/24 January, but was postponed until 19/31 January 1886 on the stage of the Maly Theatre in [[Moscow]], as a benefit performance for the artist Konstantin Rybakov. This seems to have been the only occasion on which Tchaikovsky's melodrama was performed during his lifetime.

	==Publication==		==Publication==

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Tchaikovsky's melodrama for the Domovoy's monologue in [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]'s comedy '''''The Voyevoda''''' (Воевода) was written in January 1886 ([[TH]] 22 ; [[ČW]] 20) <ref name="note1"/>. It should not to be confused with Tchaikovsky's first opera, ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]]'' (1867-68), which was based on the same story.

==Instrumentation==
The piece is scored for a small theatre orchestra comprising 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet (in B-flat), bassoon + harp, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos, and double basses.

==Duration==
There is one movement: Andante non troppo (G minor, 45 bars), lasting around 5 minutes in performance.

==Subject==
The music was written to accompany the monologue of the Domovoy (or House Spirit) in [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]'s play ''The Voyevoda: Scenes from 17th-Century Peasant Life'' (Воевода: Сцены из народной жизни XVII века) (1886), which in its earlier incarnation as ''Dream on the Volga'' (Сон на Волге) (1865) served as the basis for Tchaikovsky's first opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]]'' (1867–68); however, there is no musical connection between these works, or with the later symphonic ballad ''[[The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)|The Voyevoda]]'' after a poem by [[Mickiewicz]].

==Composition==
In a letter of 6/18 January 1886, [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] passed on to Tchaikovsky a request from [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]], to write music for the Domovoy's monologue in the revised version of his play ''The Voyevoda'' (1885), "which has some delightful verses. These verses should of course be set to quiet music in the orchestra, which should depict ''the sounds of night''" <ref name="note2"/>. Tchaikovsky responded favourably and immediately began composition, noting down the themes noted down on [[Shpazhinsky]]'s letter, completing the instrumentation four days later on 17/29 January at [[Maydanovo]] <ref name="note3"/>.

[[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]] commissioned the remaining musical numbers for the piece from his friend the composer [[Vladimir Kashperov]].

==Performances==
The production was scheduled for 12/24 January, but was postponed until 19/31 January 1886, on the stage of the Maly Theatre in [[Moscow]], as a benefit performance for the artist Konstantin Rybakov. This seems to have been the only occasion on which Tchaikovsky's melodrama was performed during his lifetime.

==Publication==
The score was published in volume 14 of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'', edited by Irina Iordan (1962) <ref name="note4"/>.

==Autographs==
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score is now preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in [[Moscow]] (ф. 905, No. 3).

==Recordings==
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==External Links==
* {{imslpscore|The_Voyevoda_(melodrama)_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|The Voyevoda (melodrama)}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Entitled 'The Voevoda' in [[TH]], and 'Music of the House-Spirit's Monologue to A.N. Ostrovskij's comedy "The Voyevoda"' in [[ČW]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">Letter from [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] to Tchaikovsky, 6/18 January 1886 — Russian State Archive for Literature and the Arts; see also letter from [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] to Tchaikovsky, 7/19 January 1886 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
<ref name="note3">See [[Letter 2852]] to [[Nadezhda von Meck]], 13/25 January 1886, and letter from [[Ippolit Shpazhinsky]] to Tchaikovsky, 17/29 January 1886 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
<ref name="note4">A facsimile of the autograph had already appeared in {{bib|1940/236|Чайковский на московской сцене}} (1940), p. 489-500.</ref>
</references>
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