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The Tangle

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Recitatives and music to a couplet for Pavel Fedorov's vaudeville (1867).

  • Composed December 1867.
  • First performed in Moscow, December 1867.
  • Lost.

History

In December 1867, Tchaikovsky took part in amateur dramatic productions at the home of his acquaintances the Lopukhins in Moscow (on the Molchanovke). He assisted with three pieces: "The Girl Hides in a Sack". "The Tangle", and "Salt Marriage". According to Emiliia Kapnist's recollections [1]. Tchaikovsky was an actor in the first piece, and for "The Tangle" he wrote recitatives and music for a couplet.

The music was not published, and the autograph has not survived.

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 191
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston

Notes:
  1. M. I. Tchaikovsky, Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 1 (1900), p. 285 [back]