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]
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