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Eternity in an Instant

Вечность в мгновении

Sketches (1893?)

Catalogue References TH 251 (not in ČW)
Date ? 1893 (unrealized)
Text Tat'iana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952), from her drama of the same name (1892)
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (sketches only)

History

This short musical phrase was noted by Tchaikovsky on a printed copy of T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik’s drama Eternity in an Instant (extracted from the Moscow journal Artist). The date of the sketch, and the nature of the work for which it may have been intended, have not been established..

From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p. 424
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston

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