The Golden Cloud Did Sleep
Ночевала тучка золотая
Trio for voices with piano by Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii,
arranged for orchestra (?1876).
| Catalogue References |
TH 189 ; ČW 418 (as "The Golden Cloud
Was Sleeping") |
| Date |
(?) 1876 |
| Text |
Mikhail Iur'evich Lermontov (1814–1841), from his poem The Rock (Утес) (1841) |
| Language |
Russian |
| Key |
G minor |
| Tempo/Section Listing |
Adagio (G minor, 69 bars) |
| Instrumentation |
Soprano, Tenor, Baritone voices + 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets
(B♭), 2 Bassoons + 2 Horns (F) +
Violins I, Violins II, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses |
| First Performance |
Saint Petersburg,
26 December 1876/7 January 1877, conducted by Eduard Nápravník |
| Autograph Location |
Klin: Tchaikovsky
House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 142) |
| First Publication |
Moscow: Muzyka, 1970 |
| Notes |
The Golden Cloud Did Sleep was written by Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii
(1813–1869) in the mid 1850s, for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano accompaniment,
and was first published in 1856 in Saint Petersburg.
In 1887 Tchaikovsky made his own choral setting of the same text (see TH 82) |
History
On the manuscript of the orchestration, Tchaikovsky wrote: "Trio. Music by Dargomyzhskii. Orchestrated
by P. Tchaikovsky". No other information has survived concerning the origins
of this work.
The first performance took place in Saint Petersburg at an afternoon
concert of the Russian Musical Society on 26 December 1876/7 January 1877, conducted
by Eduard Nápravník. The
performers were E. V. Klebek, Fedor Komissarzhevskii and Fedor Stravinskii.
From:
Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 493
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston
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