No News From My Dear One

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No News From My Dear One (От милого нету вести) (TH 200 ; ČW 321) [1] is a musical joke sent by Tchaikovsky to his nephew Vladimir Davydov in 1893 [2].

The song is written for medium voice with piano accompaniment, with the tempo marking 'Allegretto, ma doloroso' (F major, 13 bars). Tchaikovsky's autograph is preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 119) [3].

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Entitled "No News from the Darling" [sic] in ČW.
  2. ↑ Dated from the notepaper. See Музыкальное наследие Чайковского. Из историй его произведений (1958), p. 471.
  3. ↑ Published in facsimile in Дни и годы П. И. Чайковского. Летопись жизни и творчества (1940), p. 483; transcribed in Неизвестный Чайковский (2009), p. 204-205, and The Tchaikovsky papers. Unlocking the family archive (2018), p. 195.
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