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| Tchaikovsky's '''''Piano Concerto No. 3''''' in E-flat major, [[Opus]] 75 ([[TH]] 65 ; [[ČW]] 57), was begun in May 1893, and remained unfinished at the time of the composer's death on 25 October/6 November that year.
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| ==Instrumentation==
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| The first movement is score for solo piano and an orchestra consisting of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B-flat), 2 bassoons + 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in B-flat), 3 trombones, tuba + 3 timpani + violins I, violins II, cellos, and double basses.
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| ==Movements and Duration==
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| Tchaikovsky originally planned the concerto in three movements, each of which was adapted from the abandoned [[Symphony in E-flat major]] he had sketched the previous year:
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| <ol style="list-style-type: upper-roman;">
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| <li>Allegro brillante (E-flat major, 473 bars)</li>
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| <li> Andante (B-flat major, 215 bars)</li>
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| <li>''Finale''. Allegro maestoso (E-flat major, 332 bars).</li>
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| </ol>
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| At the time of the composer's death only the first movement had been completed, with the other two left in sketch form. The latter were subsequently completed by [[Sergey Taneyev]] and published as a separate work — the [[Andante and Finale]], Op. 79.
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| The first movement lasts around 15 to 20 minutes in performance, and all three movements together last approximately 35 to 40 minutes.
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| ==Composition==
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| The origins of the concerto can be traced back to the [[Symphony in E-flat major]], on which Tchaikovsky worked in 1891 and 1892, but later abandoned. By the spring of 1893 it seems that he had decided to rework three movements from the abandoned symphony into a piano concerto; however, this process was not begun until he had completed sketches for the [[Symphony No. 6]]. On 15/27 May 1893, the composer told his brother Modest of his intention to orchestrate both the new symphony and the concerto during the summer <ref name="note1"/>.
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| The following month, Tchaikovsky started to convert his earlier sketches for the abandoned symphony into the new piano concerto. According to dates in the manuscripts he began working on the first movement on 23 June/5 July, and completed it on 1/13 July at [[Grankino]]. The other two movements were completed in outline at [[Ukolovo]] on 10/22 July 1893.
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| On 1/13 August Tchaikovsky told [[Aleksandr Ziloti]] that the concerto "hasn't turned out too badly as music—but it's a thankless task! If that should be [[Taneyev]]'s opinion then, perhaps, I shall destroy it forthwith" <ref name="note2"/>. On 8/20 October in [[Moscow]], Tchaikovsky showed the concerto to [[Sergey Taneyev]], but despite the latter's harsh criticism that the concerto was not sufficiently virtuosic, all the same he did not destroy it <ref name="note3"/>.
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| However, he had already begun to have doubts about length of the work, about which he wrote to [[Aleksandr Ziloti]] on 25 September/7 October 1893: "Since it has turned out to be disgracefully long, I have decided to restrict it to just the first movement, and to call it ''Allegro de concert'' or ''Conzertstück''" <ref name="note4"/>. Two days later Tchaikovsky began to orchestrate the opening Allegro brillante <ref name="note5"/>, the completed score of which is dated 3/15 October. We may never know the composer's final intentions, since immediately after completing this movement, he left directly for [[Moscow]], and then for [[Saint Petersburg]], where he died on 25 October/6 November 1893. However, just eight days before his death, the pianist [[Adele Aus der Ohe]] recalled that Tchaikovsky "seemed especially anxious to revise his Third Pianoforte Concerto" <ref name="note10"/>.
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| ==Arrangements==
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| Tchaikovsky also arranged the first movement for two pianos (4 hands) simultaneously with the orchestration in September and October 1893.
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| ==Performances==
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| It had been intended that [[Taneyev]] should play the completed first movement from the concerto on the first anniversary of Tchaikovsky's death, but evidently the performance could not take place because the full score and parts were still not ready. It was eventually performed for the first time on 7/19 January 1895 at the second Russian Musical Society concert in [[Saint Petersburg]], with [[Sergey Taneyev]], conducted by [[Eduard Nápravník]]. In his diary for 7/19 January 1895, [[Taneyev]] noted: "Played well, but had little success. Called back only once" <ref name="note6"/>.
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| On 11/23 June 1897 the work received its [[London]] premiere, with soloist Maud Gay conducted by [[Charles Villiers Stanford]].
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| ==Publication==
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| The concerto was not published during Tchaikovsky's lifetime. In late June/early July 1894, [[Sergey Taneyev]], at [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s request, began to review the manuscripts that Tchaikovsky had left behind <ref name="note7"/>. In September the same year an agreement was concluded with [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to publish the completed Allegro brillante as a concerto one movement. By 3/15 October it had been engraved <ref name="note8"/>, and on 18/30 December 1894, [[Sergey Taneyev]] wrote to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]: "The full score of the Concerto No. 3 is ready (I have one copy)" <ref name="note9"/>.
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| Besides the full score, [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] published an arrangement for two pianos and four hands in November 1894, and the orchestral parts in March 1895.
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| The remaining two movements were subsequently completed by [[Sergey Taneyev]] and published in [[Leipzig]] by [[Mitrofan Belyayev]] as the "[[Andante and Finale]]", Op. 79.
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| In 1954 the full score and two-piano arrangement of the completed movement were published in volumes 29 and 46Б respectively of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'', edited by Aleksandr Goldenweiser.
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| ==Autographs==
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| Tchaikovsky's manuscript score of the Allegro brillante (which includes his piano reduction of the orchestral parts) is now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2|koncert-no-3-dlya-fortepiano-s-orkestrom|(ф. 88, No. 93)}}.
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| ==Recordings==
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| ==Dedication==
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| The manuscript score carries an inscription (not in Tchaikovsky's hand) to [[Louis Diémer]] (1843–1919), French pianist, and professor at the [[Paris]] Conservatory.
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| ==Related Works==
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| : ''See: [[Symphony in E-flat major]] and [[Andante and Finale]]''
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| ==External Links==
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| * {{imslpscore|Piano_Concerto_No.3,_Op.75_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|Piano Concerto No. 3}}
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <references>
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| <ref name="note1">[[Letter 4934]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 15/27 May 1893.</ref>
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| <ref name="note2">[[Letter 4994]] to [[Aleksandr Ziloti]], 1/13 August 1893.</ref>
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| <ref name="note3">{{bib|1902/25|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 3}} (1902), p. 639.</ref>
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| <ref name="note4">[[Letter 5043]] to [[Aleksandr Ziloti]], 25 September/7 October 1893.</ref>
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| <ref name="note5">[[Letter 5047]] to [[Vladimir Davydov]], 27 September/9 October 1893.</ref>
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| <ref name="note6">Diary entry of [[Sergey Taneyev]], 7/19 January 1893 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
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| <ref name="note7">See letter from [[Sergey Taneyev]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 22 June/4 July 1894 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
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| <ref name="note8">See letters from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], September-October 1894 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
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| <ref name="note9">Letter from [[Sergey Taneyev]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 18/30 December 1894 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
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| <ref name="note10">See {{bib|2012/12}} (2012), p. 95.</ref>
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| </references>
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| [[Category:Concertos]]
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| [[Category:Unfinished Works]]
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