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Little-Russian Kazachok

Малороссийский казачок

Orchestral fantasia by Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii, arranged for solo piano (?1867).

Catalogue References TH 174 ; ČW 407 (as "Little Russian Kazačok")
Date (?) 1867
Key C major
Tempo/Section Listing Allegro (C minor)—Andante (C major) (271 bars)
Instrumentation Piano (solo)
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture (ф. 88, No. 166)
First Publication Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1867
Average Duration 6 minutes
Notes The Kazachok (or ‘Cossack Dance’) for orchestra by Aleksandr Sergeevich Dargomyzhskii (1813–1869) was completed in 1864 and first published by Jurgenson in 1867 at the same time as Tchaikovsky's arrangement under the French title Cosatschoque. Fantaisie sur une danse cosaque

History

No information has survived regarding Tchaikovsky's work on this arrangement for piano (2 hands) of Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii’s musical-fantasia Kazachok. It was possibly carried out at the request of friends — most likely the Shilovskiis, who were related to Dargomyzhskii and often visited him.

The work was issued by Petr Jurgenson in 1867.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), pp. 494–495
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

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