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My Genius, My Angel, My Friend
Мой гений, мой ангел, мой друг
Song with piano accompaniment (late 1850s).
| Catalogue References | TH 89 ; ČW 208 |
|---|---|
| Date | late 1850s |
| Text | Afanasii Afanas'evich Fet (1820–1892), from the first untitled poem in his cycle To Ophelia (К Офелии) (1842) |
| Language | Russian |
| Key | C minor |
| Tempo/Section Listing | Larghetto (C minor, 47 bars) |
| Instrumentation | Low or Medium voice + Piano. |
| Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a1, No. 103) |
| First Publication | Moscow: Muzgiz, 1940 |
| Average Duration | 2 minutes |
| Dedication | "To . . . . . . . . . . . . ." (= Sergei Aleksandrovich Kireev, 1845–1888) |
| External Links |
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
 (downloadable score)The Lied and Art Song Texts Page (text and
translations) |
History
This romance was composed, apparently, in the late 1850s, at the time when, in the composer's own words, he had begun to write music "like a true amateur" [1]. On the manuscript score, Modest Tchaikovsky wrote: "1854". In the manuscript Tchaikovsky's romance has no title, but it was named by Modest Tchaikovsky when a facsimile of the first page of the manuscript was published in his biography of the composer [2].
Published for the first time in 1940 [3].
From:
Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958),
p. 430
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston
Notes:
- Herman Laroche, Собрание музвкально-критических статей, том 2, часть 1 (1924), p. 41 [back]
- Modest Tchaikovsky, Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 1 (1900), p. 128 [back]
- П. И. Чайкоаский. Полное собрание сочинений, том 44 (1940) and «Два неопубликованных романса П. И. Чайковского», Советская музыка (1940), Nos. 5–6 [back]