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Le retour

Возвращение

Waltz by Johann Gungl, arranged for orchestra (?1864) .

Catalogue References TH 170 ; ČW 404
Date (?) 1864
Tempo/Section Listing Allegro—Tempo di Valse (C major) [1]
Instrumentation 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets (C), 2 Bassoons + 2 Horns (C), 2 Trumpets (C), 3 Trombones + Timpani, Triangle + Violins I, Violins II, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses
Autograph Location Klin: Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 123) (incomplete)
First Publication Moscow: Muzyka, 1970
Notes Le Retour. Walzer für das Pianoforte (Op. 82) by the Hungarian composer Johann Gungl (1828–1883) was published in 1854 by A. Schlesinger, Berlin, and reprinted by B. Denotkine in Saint Petersburg

History

Apparently made during Tchaikovsky's years at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, since it is written in the same copy book as the orchestration of the chorus At Bedtime, which dates from around 1863–1864.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 496
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston


Notes:
  1. Only the first 56 bars of Tchaikovsky's orchestration have survived [back]

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