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The '''''Andante cantabile''''' ([[TH]] 63 ; [[ČW]] 348) from Tchaikovsky's [[String Quartet No. 1]], [[Opus]] 11 (1871), was arranged for cello and string orchestra by the composer for a concert in February 1888.

==Instrumentation==
The piece is scored for solo cello and string orchestra (violins I, violins II, violas, cellos, and double basses).

==Duration==
There is one movement: Andante cantabile (B major, 176 bars), lasting approximately 7 minutes in performance.

==Composition==
The second movement of Tchaikovsky's [[First String Quartet]] was one of his most famous compositions, and evidently the composer made this arrangement for a performance by [[Anatoly Brandukov]] in [[Paris]] in February 1888. It appears that the orchestration was itself based on [[Wilhelm Fitzenhagen]]'s a transcription of the movement for solo cello with piano <ref name="note1"/>.

The orchestral version was transposed to the key of B major; in the quartet the movement is set in B-flat major.

==Performances==
The first performance appears to have been at a private concert in [[Paris]] at the home of [[Marie de Benardaky]] on 16/28 February 1888, by members of [[Édouard Colonne]]'s Orchestra, with [[Anatoly Brandukov]] as the soloist, conducted by the composer <ref name="note2"/>. Five days later, on 21 February/4 March 1888, the piece was given its public premiere at the 16th Châtelet concert in [[Paris]], with the same soloist and conductor.

The ''Andante cantabile'' was heard for the first time in Russia in [[Moscow]] on 6/18 November 1891, in a concert organised by [[Aleksandr Ziloti]], once again with [[Anatoly Brandukov]] (cello), conducted by Tchaikovsky.

==Publication==
The score was published for the first time in volume 30Б of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1956).

==Autograph==
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which omits the cello part) is now preserved in the Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|1}}, No. 69).

==Recordings==
: ''See [[String Quartet No. 1: Recordings#For Cello and Strings|String Quartet No. 1: Recordings]]''.

==Related Works==
: ''See also'': [[String Quartet No. 1]] (1871) and ''[[Nocturne]]'' (1888).

==External Links==
* {{imslpscore|String_Quartet_No.1,_Op.11_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|String Quartet No. 1}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">[[Fitzenhagen]]'s arrangement was published by [[P. Jurgenson]] in [[Moscow]] in 1872.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The editors of [[ČW]] suggest that on this occasion [[Brandukov]] may have played some other pieces, while the ''Andante cantabile'' was performed by a string orchestra.</ref>
</references>
[[Category:Concertante Pieces]]
[[Category:Arrangements]]

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