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• Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72
  Tchaikovsky's '''''18 Pieces''''' (18 Morceaux), Op. 72 ([[TH]] 151 ; [[ČW]] 187 to 204) <ref name="not A complete performance of all eighteen pieces lasts between 60 and 70 minutes.
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• Six Pieces, Op. 51
  Tchaikovsky wrote his '''''Six Pieces''''' (Six morceaux) for solo piano, [[Op.]] 51 ([[TH]] 143 ; [[ČW]] 175 to A complete performance of all six pieces lasts around 30 minutes.
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• The Seasons
  ...es of the months were not given before the title. In the manuscript score, pieces Nos. 8 and 12 have subtitles: ''The Harvest (Scherzo)'' and ''Christmas-Tid ...ey will be done quickly—at the moment I am very much in the mood for piano pieces. Yours P. Tchaikovsky. I will retain all your titles" <ref name="note2"/>.
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• Swan Lake
  ...s an Introduction and 29 individual numbers as listed below, together with two supplementary numbers (Nos. 19a and 20a). This sequence differs from some v | No. 10
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• Mazepa
  ...ntroduction and 19 individual numbers. The first two acts are divided into two and three scenes respectively. The titles of numbers in Russian (Cyrillic) | rowspan="2"|No. 10
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• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  ...decided to award him the Great Gold Medal (which had only been awarded on two earlier occasions in the Conservatory's history — to [[Taneyev]] and [[Ar ...bed copy of his ''Morceaux de Fantaisie'', Op. 3, a set of five piano solo pieces of which No. 2 is the Prelude in C-sharp♯ minor, which would later become
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• Two Pieces, Op. 10
  The '''''Two Pieces''''' (Deux morceaux) for solo piano, [[Op.]] 10 ([[TH]] 132 ; [[ČW]] 110 and 111), were written during the three weeks tha ...pieces were written between 24 December 1871/5 January 1872 and 29 January/10 February 1872 while the composer was staying in [[Nice]], and the theme of
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• Andante and Finale
  There are two movements, together lasting around 20 minutes in performance: ...o movements: "I have copied out from Pyotr Ilyich's notebooks sketches for two movements of a future piano piece. To start with I made a clean copy, and t
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• Six Romances, Op. 73
  ...r extent suitable for music, for my part I must respond to your delightful pieces in a positive fashion. I cannot say exactly when I will be able to write mu ...l [<nowiki/>{{OS}}]. What's more, I absolutely have to leave for abroad on 10 May ... probably, I shall be in [[Petersburg]] on the 3rd. In the meantime,
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• Symphony in E-flat major
  ...arranged for solo piano as ''Scherzo-Fantasie'' (No. 10 of the [[Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72]]). ...r its successor to [[Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich]] on 29 October/10 November 1889: "I want terribly to write a somewhat grandiose symphony, whi
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• Vakula the Smith
  | rowspan="10" |'''''Act II''''' | No. 10
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• Symphony No. 6
  ...t deal of other work...", the composer wrote to [[Anatoly Tchaikovsky]] on 10/22 February <ref name="note4"/>. ...nd movement, since Tchaikovsky had worked on the third movement for around 10 days in February and March. This is also borne out by notes in the copy-boo
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• Iolanta
  ...performance, which was produced at the Maly Theatre once only on 29 April/10 May <ref name="note6"/>. In 1925, in a letter to Vasily Fyodorov, Aleksandr ...write a Russian opera, based on a poem which has been in my possession for two years already; and which I have given my word of honour to write" <ref name
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• Suite No. 1
  ...ice the hours fly by. Currently three movements of these future orchestral pieces are ready, a fourth is roughly outlined, while a fifth is taking shape in m ...e composer called the third movement ''Andante melancolico'', and the last two movements: ''March of the Lilliputians'' and ''Dance of the Giants'' <ref n
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• Six Romances, Op. 16
  ...g his symphony. and not write anything further <ref name="note5"/>. But on 10/22 December he told [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]: "Now I am forced to rest by the ...er from Tchaikovsky to [[Vasily Bessel]] concerning the publication of the pieces: "During his stay in [[Saint Petersburg]] [in December 1872] Tchaikovsky of
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• Concert Fantasia
  There are two movements: ...July, Tchaikovsky wrote: "I have an idea for a concert piece for piano in two movements" <ref name="note11"/>. The term "piece" was used in other letters
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• Humoresque
  ...n G major ([[TH]] 115 ; [[ČW]] 346) is the second of the [[Two Pieces, Op. 10]], originally written for solo piano in 1871–72, and arranged for violin ==Recordings==
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• Seven Romances, Op. 47
  ...h them before quickly leaving [[Apukhtin]]'s home without a word; a day or two later he called on his friend again, bringing with him the romance, already ...st few days we've been searching here in vain" <ref name="note4"/>, but on 10/22 July the composer informed [[Nadezhda von Meck]]: "I've begun to write s
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• Valse-Caprice
  ...ement: A tempo rubato non troppo mosso (D major, 468 bars), lasting around 10 minutes in performance. ...of my piano pieces will appear in print" <ref name="note2"/>. One of these pieces was the ''Valse-Caprice'', Op. 4, and the other was the ''[[Romance]]'' in
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• Symphony No. 4
  ...r cost me such labour, yet I have never felt such a love for one of my own pieces. I found that I was pleasantly surprised by this work. At first I wrote lar * 10/22 December: "The first movement of the symphony is coming to an end. Today
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