Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)

Piano Concerto in G major
No. 2
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Siloti (left), the editor, and the composer
Opus	44
Composed	1880 (1880)
Dedication	Nikolai Rubinstein
Performed	12 November 1881 (1881-11-12): New York City
Movements	three

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879–1880 and dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. But Rubinstein never played it, as he died in March 1881, and the work has never attained much popularity.

The premiere performance took place in New York City, on 12 November 1881. The soloist was Madeline Schiller, and Theodore Thomas conducted the New York Philharmonic orchestra.^[1] The first Russian performance was in Moscow in May 1882,^[2] conducted by Anton Rubinstein with Tchaikovsky's pupil, Sergei Taneyev, at the piano.