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The Complicated Case

Мудреный слючай

Sketches (date unknown)

Catalogue References TH 250 ; ČW 510 (as "An Intricate Case")
Date After 1880 (unrealized)
Text Petr Vasil'evich Shumakher (1817–1891), from his poem of the same name (1873)
Language Russian
Key A♭ major
Instrumentation Medium voice + Piano
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (sketches only)

History

This sketch was found inside a volume of poetry by Petr Shumakher after the composer’s death, and was presumably intended for a song or other vocal work.

From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p. 423
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston

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