Capriccio Italien

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, circa 1875; portrait by Charles Reutlinger

Capriccio italien, Op. 45, is a 15-minute fantasy for orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Composed between January and May 1880, it premiered on 18 December that year (New System) in Moscow with Nikolay Rubinstein conducting the Orchestra of the Imperial Russian Musical Society.[1] The dedicatee was cellist Karl Davydov.[2] The work's initial name was Italian Fantasia, after Mikhail Glinka's Spanish pieces.[3]

  1. ^ Italian Capriccio Tchaikovsky Research
  2. ^ Holoman 1992, p. 601.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Meltzer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).