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TH 182 Children's Songs on Russian and Ukrainian MelodiesДетские песнии на русские и малороссийские напевыHarmonisations of the collection by Mariia Mamontova (1872-77)
HistoryThe first set of twenty songs with harmonizations by Tchaikovsky was prepared in response to a pressing request from the compiler - Mariia Mamontova - early in 1872 . In May. Tchaikovsky sent Petr Jurgenson the proofs of the songs. which appeared in print in August the same year [1]. Tchaikovsky worked on the second set of songs during the first ha1f of 1877, but they were not published at that time. Evidently. Tchaikovsky did not send off the manuscript right away, and it was subsequently mislaid [2]. In 1878 Mariia Mamontova sent him still more songs to work on, but the composer, who had worked on the first two sets with great reluctance, flatly refused the request and returned her manuscript. But he asked Petr Jurgenson to refund Mariia Mamontova the money she had lost from the second set [3]. When Jurgenson reprinted the songs in 1888, Tchaikovsky wanted his name taken off the title page of the songs, but this was not possible, and the composer had to reconcile himself to this fact [4]. Tchaikovsky was probably rather embarrassed by the nature of the songs in Mariia Mamontova's collection - ranging from ancient peasant songs to modern town songs - and which were not always accurately transcribed. It seems that Mamontova was not responsible herself for recording the songs used in both collections, which were taken from a variety of sources. The first set was published by Petr Jurgenson in August 1872 [5]. The second set was published for the first time in 1949 as part of the collected edition of Tchaikovsky’s works [6]. From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958),
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