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Etude

Этюд

(1885)

Catalogue References TH 224 ; ČW 475
Date 1885 (sketch only)
Key A minor
Instrumentation Piano (solo)
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (sketch only)

History

A sketch for a type of piano etude (in A minor) was made on the composer's blotting pad for 1885, together with a blank sheet of paper. On this same sheet he noted down titles for pieces which, it seems, together with the Etude were to make up a piano (?) cycle or piano suite: Etude in A minor, Marche funèbre, Valse 1, Valse 2, Mazurque, Mazurque, Russe, Russe, Rêverie, Scherzo" [1].

From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского (1958), p. 421
English text copyright © 2007 Brett Langston

Notes:
  1. The blotting pad and sheet of paper are preserved in the Klin House-Museum Archive [back]

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