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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''''To Forget So Soon''''' (Забыть так скоро) ([[TH]] 94 ; [[ČW]] 217) is a song written by Tchaikovsky probably in October or November 1870, although the earliest sketches date from two or three years previously.<br />
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==Instrumentation==<br />
Scored for high voice with piano accompaniment.<br />
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==Movements and Duration==<br />
There is one movement: Moderato (F major-F minor, 94 bars), lasting around three minutes in performance.<br />
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==Text==<br />
From an unpublished poem by [[Aleksey Apukhtin]] (1841-1893). According to the memoirs of [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]], the text of [[Aleksey Apukhtin]]'s poem was considerably altered by Tchaikovsky, which was the cause of a dispute between the two friends <ref name="note1"/>:<br />
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<poem><br />
Забыть так скоро, Боже мой,<br />
Всё счастье жизни прожитой!<br />
Все наши встречи, разговоры,<br />
Забыть так скоро, забыть так скоро!<br />
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Забыть волненья первых дней,<br />
Свиданья час в тени ветвей!<br />
Очей немые разговоры,<br />
Забыть так скоро, забыть так скоро!<br />
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Забыть, как полная луна<br />
На нас глядела из окна,<br />
Как колыхалась тихо штора,<br />
Забыть так скоро, забыть так скоро, так скоро!<br />
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Забыть любовь, забыть мечты, <br />
Забыть те клятвы помнишь ты, помнишь ты, помнишь ты?<br />
В ночную пасмурную пору, в ночную пасмурную пору,<br />
Забыть так скоро, забыть так скоро! Боже мой!<br />
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The autograph of the poem has been lost, except for the third stanza <ref name="note2"/>.<br />
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==Composition==<br />
In a letter of 26 October/7 November 1870, the composer told [[Ivan Klimenko]]: "I have written three new pieces, a romance, something for an opera, and have completely revised the overture to ''[[Romeo]]''" <ref name="note3"/>. The romance referred to was, evidently, ''To Forget so Soon''. <br />
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It is possible that the original draft of the romances was made earlier, in 1867 or 1868, since it is to be found among sketches for the opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]]''. These preserved sketches have clearly been later reworked. The most important revision came at the romance's climax—"Forget love, forget dreams...". In the definitive version of the romance, Tchaikovsky also made additional changes in the vocal part, added and removed repeats.<br />
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==Performances==<br />
''To Forget So Soon'' appears to have been performed for the first time by [[Aleksandra Aleksandrova-Kochetova]] in [[Moscow]], at an all-Tchaikovsky concert in the Little Hall of the Nobles' Society, on 16/28 March 1871.<br />
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==Publication==<br />
The song was published for the first time in 1870 in edition No. 12 of the [[Moscow]] journal ''Musical Herald'' (Музыкальный вестник). It was reprinted independently by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in November 1873 <ref name="note4"/>, and was included in volume 44 of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1940), edited by Ivan Shishov and Nikolay Shemanin.<br />
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==Autographs==<br />
The whereabouts of Tchaikovsky's manuscript score are unknown.<br />
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==Recordings==<br />
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==Dedication==<br />
The song is dedicated to the singer [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]], who was also a distant relative of the composer.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* {{imslpscore|To_Forget_So_Soon_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|To Forget So Soon}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">From Fyodor Malinin's unpublished article on [[Apukhtin]]'s ''To Forget So Soon'', which contains extracts from [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]]'s memoirs — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive; quoted in {{bib|1958/14|Музыкальное наследие Чайковского}} (1958), p. 435.</ref> <br />
<ref name="note2">See {{und|А. Н. Апухтин. Полное собрание стихотворений}} (Leningrad, 1991), p. 424.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 213]] to [[Ivan Klimenko]]; the other works referred to were the [[Three Pieces, Op. 9]], for piano, the opera ''[[The Oprichnik]]'', and the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.</ref> <br />
<ref name="note4">Passed by the censor on 25 September/7 October 1873.</ref> <br />
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