P. TCHAIKOVSKY'S THIRD PIANO CONCERT: THE QUESTION OF "DARKENED" BIOGRAPHY
Keywords:
creativity of P. Tchaikovsky, genre of solo instrumental concert, Concert №3 Es-dur for piano and orchestraAbstract
The article examines P. Tchaikovsky's Third Piano Concert - one of the few not properly researched pages of the composer's work. The concert is mentioned in works dedicated to P. Tchaikovsky's works, but the information is far from accurate. Researchers are left with questions related to the creation of the concert, determining the features of the structure, musical material, etc. Not much better is the situation among the performers: The Third Piano Concert significantly loses competition with the first two concerts by P. Tchaikovsky, and most of the pianists who added yhis concert to their repertoire are limited to only the first part of the Allegro brillante. Being apart from all of Tchaikovsky's creative heritage at some point, it has the status of a marginal one. Nevertheless, it requires much deeper study and reflection that can only be done in the context of the objective historical circumstances that arose when it was created, which will help to clarify its current status. Concert №3 for piano and orchestra is the last work that P. Tchaikovsky worked on. The idea of creation appeared at the composer’s mind in the summer of 1893, and the musical material should have become sketches of the Es-dur Symphony, which in its then form did not satisfy the author. However, work on the concert was also quite difficult. At some stage P. Tchaikovsky wanted to confine himself only to the first part, but in the completed manuscript of the Allegro brillante score he put the inscription "The end of the first part" in his own hand, which indicated the further intention to work on the following parts and to make a full-fledged symphony cyclostine material . Unfortunately, in less than a month, P. Tchaikovsky passed away and failed to finish. In 1894, the first part of the concert, orchestrated by P. Tchaikovsky, was published by P. Jurgenson Publishing House. It was called "Concert № 3" op. 75. The following two parts were not orchestrated, and this case was taken over by S. Taneyev. At the end of the work, two years after the first part of the concert was published, they were released as a separate opus, entitled "Andante e Finale" op. 79. These opuses are now perceived as different works, but they should be combined into one because they are part of P. Tchaikovsky's Third Piano Concerto.
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