Andante ma non troppo in E minor
Tchaikovsky Research
The Andante ma non troppo in E minor, for string quintet (TH 157 ; ČW 335), 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, cello and double bass.
Movements and Duration
There is one movement: Andante ma non troppo (E minor, 43 bars), lasting around 3 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 is now preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 127) [1].
Recordings
- See: Discography
External Links
- Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) — downloadable scores
Notes and References
- ↑ On the first page of the manuscript is a note by Modest Tchaikovsky: "Exercise (prelude) for bowed quintet".