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	==Dedications==		==Dedications==
	~~''Souvenir de Hapsal'' is dedicated to~~ [[Vera Butakova\|Vera Davydova]], later Butakova ~~(1843–1920~~), younger sister of [[Lev Davydov]] ~~(husband of Tchaikovsky's sister [[Aleksandra Davydova\|Aleksandra]])~~, ~~who~~ was staying at [[Hapsal]] when Tchaikovsky ~~wrote~~ the piano pieces.		The published score contains the inscription "dediés à V. V. Davidoff". [[Vera Butakova\|Vera Davydova]] (later Butakova) was the younger sister of the composer's brother-in-law [[Lev Davydov]], and she was staying at [[Hapsal]] when Tchaikovsky composed the piano pieces.

	==Related Works==		==Related Works==

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	The whereabouts of Tchaikovsky's manuscripts for all three pieces are ~~unknow~~.		The whereabouts of Tchaikovsky's manuscripts for all three pieces are unknown.

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	''Souvenir de Hapsal'' is dedicated to [[Vera Butakova\|Vera Davydova]], later Butakova (1843–1920), younger sister of [[Lev Davydov]] (husband of Tchaikovsky's sister [[Aleksandra Davydova\|Aleksandra]], who was staying at [[Hapsal]] when Tchaikovsky wrote the piano pieces.		''Souvenir de Hapsal'' is dedicated to [[Vera Butakova\|Vera Davydova]], later Butakova (1843–1920), younger sister of [[Lev Davydov]] (husband of Tchaikovsky's sister [[Aleksandra Davydova\|Aleksandra]]), who was staying at [[Hapsal]] when Tchaikovsky wrote the piano pieces.

	==Related Works==		==Related Works==

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			It is not known when ''Ruines d'un château'' (No. 1) was first performed.

	''Scherzo'' (No. 2) was performed for the first time by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]] at a special symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in [[Moscow]], on 27 February/10 March 1868.		''Scherzo'' (No. 2) was performed for the first time by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]] at a special symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in [[Moscow]], on 27 February/10 March 1868.

	''Chant sans paroles'' (No. 3) was first performed in [[Moscow]] by [[Karl Klindworth]] at the 1st Quartet Soirée of the Russian Musical Society on 2/14 October 1868 <ref name="note4"/>~~, and in~~ [[Saint Petersburg]] ~~by [[Anna Yesipova]] at a concert in the~~ Bolshoi Theatre on 28 February/12 March 1874 <ref name="note5"/>~~. It was also conducted by Tchaikovsky at a~~ concert ~~in the~~ Imperial School of Jurisprudence ~~in the same city on~~ 3/15 March 1892, in an orchestral arrangement by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].		''Chant sans paroles'' (No. 3) was first performed in [[Moscow]] by [[Karl Klindworth]] at the 1st Quartet Soirée of the Russian Musical Society on 2/14 October 1868 <ref name="note4"/>. Other notable early performances included:
			* [[Saint Petersburg]], Bolshoi Theatre concert, 28 February/12 March 1874, [[Anna Yesipova]] (piano) <ref name="note5"/>
	~~It is not known when ''Ruines d'un château'' (No. 1) was first performed.~~		* Konstanz, 3rd symphony concert, 5/17 January 1881, Marie Heimlicher (piano)
			* [[Saint Petersburg]], Imperial School of Jurisprudence, 3/15 March 1892, conducted by Tchaikovsky, in an orchestral arrangement by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]]

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'''''Souvenir de Hapsal''''', [[Op.]] 2 ([[TH]] 125 ; [[ČW]] 100 to 102) <ref name="note1"/>, was Tchaikovsky's first cycle of pieces for solo piano, written in the summer of 1867 while he was staying at the Estonian resort of [[Hapsal]] (now [[Haapsalu]]).

==Movements and Duration==
# '''Ruines d'un château'''<br/>Adagio misterioso (E minor, 114 bars).
# '''Scherzo'''<br/>Allegro vivo (F major, 368 bars).
# '''Chant sans paroles'''<br/>Allegretto grazioso e cantabile (F major, 69 bars).
A complete performance of all three pieces lasts around 10 to 15 minutes.

==Composition==
The pieces were written during a break from Tchaikovsky's work on the opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]]'', in June and July 1867, while the composer was staying at [[Hapsal]] together with [[Modest Tchaikovsky]] and [[Anatoly Tchaikovsky]], and some members of the Davydov family <ref name="note2"/>.

==Performances==
''Scherzo'' (No. 2) was performed for the first time by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]] at a special symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in [[Moscow]], on 27 February/10 March 1868.

''Chant sans paroles'' (No. 3) was first performed in [[Moscow]] by [[Karl Klindworth]] at the 1st Quartet Soirée of the Russian Musical Society on 2/14 October 1868 <ref name="note4"/>, and in [[Saint Petersburg]] by [[Anna Yesipova]] at a concert in the Bolshoi Theatre on 28 February/12 March 1874 <ref name="note5"/>. It was also conducted by Tchaikovsky at a concert in the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in the same city on 3/15 March 1892, in an orchestral arrangement by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].

It is not known when ''Ruines d'un château'' (No. 1) was first performed.

==Publication==
The cycle was published for the first time by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in 1868. Many years later, in 1884, when [[Jurgenson]] was undertaking to publish a selection of his works for piano, Tchaikovsky included the complete cycle in his list of pieces worthy of being reprinted <ref name="note3"/>.

''Souvenir de Hapsal'' appears in volume 51А of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1945), edited by Ivan Shishov.

==Autographs==
The whereabouts of Tchaikovsky's manuscripts for all three pieces are unknow.

==Recordings==
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==Dedications==
''Souvenir de Hapsal'' is dedicated to [[Vera Butakova|Vera Davydova]], later Butakova (1843–1920), younger sister of [[Lev Davydov]] (husband of Tchaikovsky's sister [[Aleksandra Davydova|Aleksandra]], who was staying at [[Hapsal]] when Tchaikovsky wrote the piano pieces.

==Related Works==
''Scherzo'' (No. 2) was a reworking by Tchaikovsky of the central section of his [[Allegro in F minor]] for piano, which had been composed during his studies at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory in the early 1860s.

==External Links==
* {{imslpscore|Souvenir_de_Hapsal,_Op.2_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|Souvenir de Hapsal}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In [[ČW]] the titles of Nos. 1 and 3 are translated as ''Ruins of a Castle'' and ''Song Without Words'' respectively, and the title of the whole set as ''Recollections of Hapsal''.</ref>
<ref name="note2">See {{bib|1900/35|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 1}} (1900), p. 272.</ref>
<ref name="note3">See letters from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to Tchaikovsky, 17/29 April and 3/15 May 1884 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive. See also [[Letter 2485]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 8/20 May 1884.</ref>
<ref name="note4">See ''Signale für die Musikalische Welt'' (5 November 1868), No. 48, p. 985.</ref>
<ref name="note5">See ''Signale für die Musikalische Welt'' (May 1874), No. 25, p. 393.</ref>
</references>
[[Category:Piano Music]]