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TH 225
Two Songs
Две песни
Sketches (1886–87).
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Title |
Key |
Text |
Dedication |
| [1] |
Oh No, Do Not Love Me Just For Beauty Alone
О нет! За красоту ты не люби меня |
F major |
Grand Duke
Konstantin Konstantinovich,
from his poem From the German [С немецкого]
(by 1886).
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| [2] |
I Saw You in a Dream
Тебя я видела во сне |
D minor |
Grand Duke
Konstantin Konstantinovich,
from an untitled poem (by 1886). |
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- Unrealised projects dating from September 1886–December 1887.
- Written for high voice with piano.
- Texts by Grand Duke
Konstantin Konstantinovich,
from poems in the collection Verses by K.R. [Стиховрения К. Р.] (1886).
- See also the Six Romances,
Op. 63.
History
Sketches for both these romances are found in a book of poetry by the Grand
Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich
("K.R.", which the author presented to Tchaikovsky in September 1886
[1]. Tchaikovsky
made annotations and musical sketches by a number of poems, most of which were
eventually used in the set of Six Romances
[Op. 63]. However, the sketches for Oh No, Do Not Love Me Just For Beauty
Alone and I Saw You in a Dream, were not subsequently developed.
From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p.
408
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston
References:
- Стиховрения К. Р. (Saint
Petersburg, 1886), in the composer's personal library at the Klin House-Museum
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