Adagio -from Sleeping Beauty
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Product ID: GM1 CL073
By Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Classics
Genre:
Romantic Era
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
5:00
Level: 3
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The main theme of this adagio is surely one of Tchaikovsky's most beautiful tunes and the richness of the orchestration is a delight. In this edition the 4 trumpet parts (actually 2 cornets and 2 trumpets) have been reduced to 2 and the cor anglais has been omitted. Other parts have not been simplified. This can be played with the "Waltz" (GMCL074 below) to make a more substantial "excerpt" from Sleeping Beauty.
Instrumentation
Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Side drum, Cymbals, Bass drum), Harp (or piano) Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)
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Composer
Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky (1840-1897)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide-ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental, chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant, despite his obvious musical precocity. He pursued a musical career against the wishes of his family, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed.
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