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TH 72

Nature and Love

Природа и любовь

Trio with chorus, G-flat major (1870).

• Text by the composer.
• Composed in December 1870.
• Scored for SSA soli, SSA chorus and piano.
• First performed in Moscow, 16/28 March 1871.
• Dedicated to Berta Val'zek.
• Average duration: 8m 40s.

History

Written in December 1870 for students of Berta Val'zek's singing class at the Moscow Conservatory. It was played for the first time, apparently, at a concert given by students of Berta Val'zek, and repeated at a concert of Tchaikovsky's works on 16 March 1871 [1].

The trio was dedicated to Berta Val'zek, and published by Petr.Jurgenson in October 1894 [2].

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 477
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

Notes:

1. M. I. Tchaikovsky, Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 3 (1902), pp. 366, 369, and N. D. Kashkin, Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1896), p. 90 [back]
2. Passed by the censor on 12 March 1894 [back]