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The overture from [[Vladimir Kashperov]]'s opera ''The Storm'' was arranged for solo piano by Tchaikovsky between August and October 1867 ([[TH]] 254 ; [[ČW]] 433). Until very recently, the date and title of the piece was unknown <ref name="note1"/>.
== Summary ==
 
Tchaikovsky, aged 29. Photographed by A. Eichenwald in [[Moscow]], autumn 1869 <ref name="note1"/>.
The surviving last four pages of Tchaikovsky's autograph score were discovered in the archive of [[Pyotr Jurgenson]]'s publishing house, and are now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2|v-n-kashperov-introdukciya-k-opere-groza-t-79-177-perelozhenie-dlya-fortepiano-v-2-ruki|(ф. 88, No. 120)}}. At the end of the manuscript is the publisher's note "Printed and engraved in metallograph by [[P. I. Jurgenson]] in [[Moscow]]" <ref name="note2"/>.
 
In 2012, Aleksandr Komarov finally identified the work as a solo piano arrangement of bars 79 to 177 from the introduction to [[Vladimir Kashperov]]'s opera ''The Storm'' <ref name="note3"/>. This opera had its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]] on 30 October/11 November 1867, and was based on the same story by [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]] as Tchaikovsky's overture, ''[[The Storm]]'', which he had composed as a student in 1864.
 
In October 1867, [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] published the overture to Kashkperov's opera in an arrangement for solo piano by [[Aleksandr Dubuque]] <ref name="note4"/>. Komarov found that pages 7 to 9 of the printed arrangement corresponded exactly to the manuscript fragment in Tchaikovsky's hand. Presumably Tchaikovsky had arranged the whole of the introduction at [[Dubuque]]'s request, either as a commission or, more probably, in settlement of a debt. Komarov suggests that Tchaikovsky probably worked on this arrangement between August and October 1867, after his return from a summer holiday at [[Hapsal]] in Estonia.
 
It is not known whether Tchaikovsky arranged any other parts of [[Kashperov]]'s opera, besides the introduction.


==Notes and References==
==Notes and References==
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<ref name="note1">Entitled "An Unidentified Work" in [[ČW]], and as "Piano Piece in A minor" in [[TH]].</ref>
<ref name="note1">We are most grateful to Mr Simone Mantelli and to Miss Ann Avdeeva (curator of the Yelena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum in Moscow) for bringing this photograph to our attention and providing us with a copy.</ref>
<ref name="note2">"Печать и гравировка в металлографии П. И. Юргенсона в Москве".</ref>
<ref name="note3">See Aleksandr Komarov, {{bib|2014/16|Новая атрибуция в фонде П. И. Чайковского}} (2014).</ref>
<ref name="note4">This edition was advertised in the newspaper ''Современная летопись'' (5 November 1867), p. 16.</ref>
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[[Category:Arrangements|Storm (Kashperov)]]
[[Category:Piano Music|Storm (Kashperov)]]

Revision as of 20:11, 31 March 2023

Summary

Tchaikovsky, aged 29. Photographed by A. Eichenwald in Moscow, autumn 1869 [1].

Notes and References

  1. We are most grateful to Mr Simone Mantelli and to Miss Ann Avdeeva (curator of the Yelena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum in Moscow) for bringing this photograph to our attention and providing us with a copy.