Adagio in C major
The Adagio in C major, for horn quartet (TH 156 ; ČW 328), 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 horns in G, E-flat and E, and bass horn in C.
Movements and Duration
There is one movement: Adagio (C major, 225 bars), lasting around 2 minutes in performance.
- To hear a virtual performance of the piece see "First Thoughts".
Publication
The work was published for the first time in 1967 in volume 58 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works, edited by Irina Iordan.
- See also online resources below.
Autographs
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which also includes the Andante ma non troppo in A major), is now preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 130).
Recordings
- See: Discography
Online Resources
The following items can be viewed or downloaded online:
- Full score, first edition (1967), from the Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP).
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