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==Autographs==
==Autographs==
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which includes the [[Adagio in C major]] is now preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive (a{{sup|1}}, No. 130).  
Tchaikovsky's manuscript score (which includes the [[Adagio in C major]]) is now preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive (a{{sup|1}}, No. 130).  


==Recordings==
==Recordings==

Revision as of 19:28, 10 January 2023

The Andante ma non troppo in A major, for small orchestra (TH 164 ; ČW 329), 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 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A), 2 bassoons + 4 horns (in A, E) + violins I, violins II, violas, cellos, and double basses.

Movements and Duration

There is one movement: Andante ma non troppo (A major, 217 bars), lasting around 7 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 (which includes the Adagio in C major) is now preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 130).

Recordings

See: Discography

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