Allegretto in E major
Tchaikovsky Research
The Allegretto in E major, for string quartet (TH 153 ; ČW 333), was written in 1863 or 1864 as an exercise while Tchaikovsky was a student in Anton Rubinstein's composition classes at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Instrumentation
Scored for 2 violins, viola and cello.
Movements and Duration
There is one movement: Allegretto (E major, 40 bars), lasting around 2 minutes in performance.
Publication
The work was published for the first time in 1967 in volume 58 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works, edited by Irina Iordan.
Autographs
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which also includes the Allegro ma non tanto in G major) is now preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 128).
Recordings
- See: Discography